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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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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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Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.
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Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
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If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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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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We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
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Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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Thy peace shall be in much patience.
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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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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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Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.
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Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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