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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
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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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For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.
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A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
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The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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Thy peace shall be in much patience.
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Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
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