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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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Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God.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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He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
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Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
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I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.
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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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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
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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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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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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.
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All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing and His peace passing all understanding.
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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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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
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For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.
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To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
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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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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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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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