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All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.
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
Love
Vanity
Serve
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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
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If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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Habit is overcome by habit.
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
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Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
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If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.
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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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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
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Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.
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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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Of two evils we must always choose the least.
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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Know all and you will pardon all.
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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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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing and His peace passing all understanding.
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