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Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

Thomas a Kempis

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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
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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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My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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You are a man, not God you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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