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• 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

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• Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

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  Be Patient, Failing, Endeavor

  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.1542, Moody Publishers

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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.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Passion

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• We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

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  Temptation, Who We Are, Shows

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• Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death; trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.

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  Jesus, Life And Death, Helping

  Thomas a Kempis, Aeterna Press (1947). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.87, Aeterna Press

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• Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.

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  Advice, Feelings, Might

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• No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.

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  Order, Temptation, Secret

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• Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

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  Giving Up, Lust, Asceticism

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• Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

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  Remember, Duty, Position

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• I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.

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  Book, Littles, Found

  G K Chesterton, John Bunyan, Brother Lawrence, Andrew Murray, R A Torrey (2013). “Hendrickson Christian Classics Audio Library”, p.18, Hendrickson Publishers

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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.

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  Heaven, Grace, Soul

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• Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.

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  Men, Wings, Two

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

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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.

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  Spiritual, Powerful, Giving

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• O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.

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  Giving, Done, Lord

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• A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.

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  Jesus, Growth, Spirit

  "Imitation of Christ". Book by Thomas a Kempis, Book II, Chapter I,

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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.

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  Book, Heart, Glasses

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• If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

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  All Things, Ifs, Thyself

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• It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.

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  Mind, Gains, God Love

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

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  Teacher, Heart, Light

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• Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

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  Sweet, Love Is, Light

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• Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

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  Love, Believe, Loving Someone

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• Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

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  Flattery, Rich, Willing

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• 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

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• The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

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  Fighting, Men, Lust

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• The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

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  Spiritual, Inspirational Life, Men

  "Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume".

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