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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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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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Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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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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Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.
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My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
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If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.
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The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
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The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
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Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
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Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
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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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Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.
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If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.
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What thou art, that thou art.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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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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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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