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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Philosopher
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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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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.
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If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.
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Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?
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No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.
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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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The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
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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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Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.
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He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
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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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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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