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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Philosopher
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Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
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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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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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We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
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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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Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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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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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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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
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If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.
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