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A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
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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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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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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.
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He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.
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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
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Know all and you will pardon all.
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The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
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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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Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
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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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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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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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He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.
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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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Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.
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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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