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Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
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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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
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Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.
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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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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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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 God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
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God deceiveth thee not.
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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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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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Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
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