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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
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Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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Thy peace shall be in much patience.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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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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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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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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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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He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
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Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
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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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