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Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.
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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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Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
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If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.
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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
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Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.
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Leave off that excessive desire of knowing therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.
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Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
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Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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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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Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole world. Poorest of all is he who lives without Jesus, and richest of all is he who stands in favor with Jesus.
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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
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Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
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It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
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What thou art, that thou art that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.
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Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
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