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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
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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Thomas Hammerlein
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Thomas Hämerken
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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.
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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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Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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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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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
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Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole world. Poorest of all is he who lives without Jesus, and richest of all is he who stands in favor with Jesus.
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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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Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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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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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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Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.
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Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
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