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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.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
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Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
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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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In the morning fix thy good purpose and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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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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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
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He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.
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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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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
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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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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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Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]
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For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
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It carries a burden which is no burden it will not be kept back by anything low and mean it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.
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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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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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What thou art, that thou art.
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