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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.

Thomas a Kempis

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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
Surely
Seek
Jesus
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Things
Ruin
Ruins

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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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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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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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The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
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Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
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No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
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For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.
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Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
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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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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
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God deceiveth thee not.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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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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Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
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