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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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Hämmerlein
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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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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
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Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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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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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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Leave off that excessive desire of knowing therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.
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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.
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.
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No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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God deceiveth thee not.
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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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