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If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.
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
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Habit is overcome by habit.
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Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
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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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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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The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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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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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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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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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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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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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.
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