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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
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
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For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot and we oversight what is necessary because every man goes towards the exterior and if he doesn't regain consciousness quickly, with pleasure remain involved in it.
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Know all and you will pardon all.
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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 more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
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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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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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May not be your peace in the mouth of the men since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
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God deceiveth thee not.
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Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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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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Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
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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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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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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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Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
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