Thomas a Kempis Quotes - Page 11

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• All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

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  Vanity, God Love

  Thomas a Kempis, Aeterna Press (1941*). “The Following of Christ”, p.11, Aeterna Press

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• One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

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  Wise, Reality, Views

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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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  Faith, Cutting, Anxiety

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• For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.

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  God, Wise, Strong

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• No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

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  Self Control, Labor, Severe

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• Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening, if thou spend the day profitably.

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  Evening, Rejoice, Ifs

  "The Imitation of Christ in Four Books".

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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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  Art, Trouble, Glory

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• Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

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  Quality, Improvement, Hours

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• To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

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  Wisdom, Thinking, Perfection

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• Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.

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  Grace, Strive, Obedience

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• 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

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• O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

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  Sports, Children, Self

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 536, 1895.

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• What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

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  Heaven, Earth, Elements

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1556, Moody Publishers

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• No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

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  Conversation, Qualified, Converses

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• But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

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  Benefits, Littles, Endeavor

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• In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.

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  Jesus, Enemy

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• It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

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  Sorrow, Able, Sin

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• Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

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  Men, Judgment, Every Man

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.

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  Fall

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• A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

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  Men, Madness, Proportion

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• Man proposes, but God disposes.

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  God, Religious, Men

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 1, ch. 19, sect. 2

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• No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

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  Men, Safe

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

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  Pain, Saint, Spirit

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• The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

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  Men, Tongue, Glory

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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• The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

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  God, People, Purpose

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