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Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.
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The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
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Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
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Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.
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He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.
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Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable.
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It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.
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A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
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The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
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Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.
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