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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
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Hämmerlein
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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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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
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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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He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
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It carries a burden which is no burden it will not be kept back by anything low and mean it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.
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For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.
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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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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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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
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