Thomas a Kempis Quotes - Page 13

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• Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

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  Love, Self, Vision

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• Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

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  Christ, Endeavor, Conform

  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.1510, Moody Publishers

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• If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

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  Work, Busy, Thee

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

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• He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.

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  Littles, Faults, Sin

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?

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  Greatness, Men, Esteem

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• It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

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  Army, Undone, Duty

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• O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

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  Passing Away, Earth, Glory

  "Imitation of Christ", Book I, Chapter III. 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 313-14, 1922.

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• The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

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  Obeying The Law, Safe, Obedience

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• He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.

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  Grace, Enough, Grace Of God

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• It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.

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  Mean, Adversity, Love Is

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• Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

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  Passing Away, World, Glory

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