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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
Seek
Jesus
Find
Things
Ruin
Ruins
Surely

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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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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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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
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Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
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Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]
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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
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Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
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Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
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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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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
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