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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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Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
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Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.
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Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable.
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All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.
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May not be your peace in the mouth of the men since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
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No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.
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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
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For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.
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Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
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Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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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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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.
Thomas a Kempis
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
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We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
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