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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
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
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Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.
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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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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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Thy peace shall be in much patience.
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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
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A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
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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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Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
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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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If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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