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“In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Perfection #Joy #Soul
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“First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Peace #Firsts
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“He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Love #Gratitude #Buddhist
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“Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort, but few who desire His suffering. All want to rejoice with him, but few are willing to suffer for Him. He writes; there are many who admire his miracles, but there are few who follow in the humiliation of the cross.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Jesus #Writing #Miracle
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“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Godly #Acceptance #Upset
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“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Men #Wings #Two
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“What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Anxiety #Sorrow #Doe
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“Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Remember #Duty #Position
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“Man sees your actions, but God your motives.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Men #Action #Motive
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“Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Sleep #Flames #Fire
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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.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Spiritual #Powerful #Giving
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“Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Strong #Men #Weak
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“If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Diversity #People #Wish
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“Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Forgiveness #Pardon
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“All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Patience #Men #Practice
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“Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Priorities #Desire #Use
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“Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Men #Roots #Needs
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“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Love #Lying #Thinking
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“Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Sight #Sake #Merit
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“Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Art #Fighting #Overcoming
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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.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Book #Heart #Glasses
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“Habit is overcome by habit.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Overcoming #Habit
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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.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Faith #Morning #Pain
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“By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Men #Wings #Two
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“A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Heaven #Soul #Grace
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“If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Spiritual #Discipline #Wish
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“When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Inspirational Life #Mind
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“He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Love #Flow
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“Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Jesus #Prayer #Passion
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“All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.”
-- Thomas a Kempis
#Men #Desire
