Thomas a Kempis Quotes About Overcoming

Quotes about: Overcoming

• Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

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  Art, Fighting, Overcoming

• For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

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  Giving, Grace, Overcoming

• Habit is overcome by habit.

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  Overcoming, Habit

  Thomas a Kempis, Aeterna Press (1941*). “The Following of Christ”, p.78, Aeterna Press

• Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things. Whoever is weak in spirit, given to the flesh and inclined to sensual things can, but only with great difficulty, drag himself away from his earthly desires. Therefore he is often gloomy and sad when he is trying to pull himself away from them, and easily gives way to anger should someone attempt to oppose him.

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  Giving, Sensual, Desire

• My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. Let it not overcome me, my God. Let not flesh and blood conquer me. Let not the world and its brief glory deceive me, nor the devil trip me by his craftiness. Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, and constancy to persevere. Give me the soothing unction of Your spirit rather than all the consolations of the world, and in place of carnal love, infuse into me the love of Your name.

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  Love, Sight, Self

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.74, Courier Corporation

• 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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  Heart, Doors, Enemy

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.25, Cambridge University Press

• So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

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  Evil, Laziness, Overcoming

• Habit is overcome by habit.
  [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]

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  Overcoming, Habit

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