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Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
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
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
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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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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
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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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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
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The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
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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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Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
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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.
Thomas a Kempis
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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!
Thomas a Kempis
Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
Thomas a Kempis
The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
Thomas a Kempis
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Thomas a Kempis
A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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