Thomas a Kempis Quotes - Page 2

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• What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

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  Differences, Doe, Needs

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• The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

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  Adversity, Men, Doe

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• He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

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  Heart, Men, Sight

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• Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.

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  Spiritual, Judging, Judgement

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• Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

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  Blessing, Being Thankful, Worthy

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• We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

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  Peace, Should Have, Busy

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• The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

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  Wise, Peace, Humble

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• The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

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  Devil, Doe, Unbelievers

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• Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

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  Change, Happiness, Finding Happiness

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• It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

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  Life, Vanity, Long

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

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• A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

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  Book, Voice, Doe

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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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  Being Yourself, Men, Offending

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• Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

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  Doe, Return, Remember

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• Love is a mighty power,
  a great and complete good.
  Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth.
  It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders
  all bitterness sweet and acceptable.

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  Sweet, Good Love, Love Is

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• There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

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  Kings, Adversity, Men

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

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• Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

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  Confidence, Illusion, Born

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• Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

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  Priorities, Desire, Use

  Thomas a Kempis, James Jones (1842). “The Following of Christ...”, p.214

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• God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.

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  Long, Giving, Moments

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• Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.

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  Opinion, Interfere

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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.

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  Godly, Acceptance, Upset

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• Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.

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  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• We must imitate Christ's life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Heart, Darkness

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• First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

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  Peace, Firsts, Tranquility

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• Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

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  Forgiveness, Pardon Me, Ifs

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• Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

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  Strong, Men, Weak

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