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Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
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 Hammerlein
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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
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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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If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.
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Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
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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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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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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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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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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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Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
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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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