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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.
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 Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
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Hämmerlein
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No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.
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Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.
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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
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Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.
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Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.
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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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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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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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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.
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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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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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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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Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.
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Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
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May not be your peace in the mouth of the men since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
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