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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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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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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Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
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Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
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I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.
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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
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If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.
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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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Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.
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Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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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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Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.
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It carries a burden which is no burden it will not be kept back by anything low and mean it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.
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Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.
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A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
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Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable.
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God deceiveth thee not.
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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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Of two evils we must always choose the least.
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