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Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

Thomas a Kempis

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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
Weighs
Considers
Intentions
Intention
Actions
Action
Men

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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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.
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Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.
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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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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
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He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
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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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What thou art, that thou art.
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Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.
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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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