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• Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.

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  Christian, Jesus, People

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• Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

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  Simple, Men, Wings

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• If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

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  Crosses, Ifs

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• If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

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  Humble, Understanding, Desire

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• Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

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  Anger, Able, Firsts

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• Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

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  Long, Age, Add

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• How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

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  Adversity, Heaven, Suffering

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• I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

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  Pride, Two, Credit

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• Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Adversity

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• What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

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  Anxiety, Sorrow, Doe

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• Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

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  Art, Imperfection, Mold

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• If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

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  Spiritual, Discipline, Wish

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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?

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  People, Diversity, Wish

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• He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

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  Soul, Sorrow, Trouble

  "The Imitation of Christ: Four Books".

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• Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.

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  Love, Wise, Perfect

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• 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

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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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  Morning, Advice, Together

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

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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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  Love, Gratitude, Buddhist

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• Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.

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  Heart, Soul, Lovers

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• Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

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  Love, Light, Burden

  Thomas A Kempis, Wyatt North (1617). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.55, Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

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• If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

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  Art, Pain, Adversity

  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.1583, Moody Publishers

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• The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

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  Inspirational, Loss, Weakness

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• Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.

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  Jesus, Drinking, Adversity

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• Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

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  Waiting, Be Patient, Unfaithful

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• Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

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  Heart, Acceptance, Men

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