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If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.
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
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
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Hämmerlein
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God deceiveth thee not.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing For God is his All.
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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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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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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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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
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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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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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Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
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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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Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
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What thou art, that thou art that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.
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Of two evils we must always choose the least.
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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