Thomas a Kempis Quotes - Page 3

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• Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.

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  Opinion, Interfere

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• Love makes everything that is heavy light.

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  Love, True Love, Light

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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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• A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." The master replied, "How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and then chewed it up for you before giving it to you?" If your heart is straight with God, then every creature will be to you a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine.

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  Book, Heart, Mirrors

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• Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

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• Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

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  Thinking, Intelligence

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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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• At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

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  Liberty, Done, Libertarian

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.

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  God, Goodness, Goodness Of God

  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.1589, Moody Publishers

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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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• Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

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  Men, Action, Intention

  Thomas a Kempis, James Jones (1842). “The Following of Christ...”, p.118

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• He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.

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  Faith, Morning, Pain

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• Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

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  Thinking, Kind, Should

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• Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

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  Adversity, Temptation, Trying

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

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  Forgiveness, Pardon Me, Ifs

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• Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure truth draw you to read. Do not inquire, Who said this? but pay attention to what is said.

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  Attention, Pay, Said

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• Temptations discover what you are.

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  Temptation

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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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• 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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• Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Heaven

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.

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  God, Winning, Thee

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• Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

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  Running, Rejoice

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• If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.

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  Trying, Ifs, Convenient

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