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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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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.
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Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?
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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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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot and we oversight what is necessary because every man goes towards the exterior and if he doesn't regain consciousness quickly, with pleasure remain involved in it.
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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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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
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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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The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
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Of two evils we must always choose the least.
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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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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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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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