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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
Clergyman
Philosopher
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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
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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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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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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
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If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.
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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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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
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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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