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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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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
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Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.
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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.
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Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
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We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
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When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
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Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
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A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
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If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.
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No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
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It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.
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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
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My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
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