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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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Jacksonville
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Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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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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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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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
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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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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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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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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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Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.
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You are a man, not God you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
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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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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.
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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.
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O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
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