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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.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
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Thomas Hammerlein
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.
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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
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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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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
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It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
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Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing For God is his All.
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Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.
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