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Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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Jacksonville
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To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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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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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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Of two evils we must always choose the least.
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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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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
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Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]
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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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Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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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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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
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Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
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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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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
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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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