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

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  Anxiety, Sorrow, Doe

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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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• 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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• 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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• Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

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  God, Simplicity, Affection

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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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• If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

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  Bears, Crosses, Ifs

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 2, ch. 12, sect. 5

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• Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

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  Soul, Study, Invisible

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• Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.

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  Love Is, Light, Bears

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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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• 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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• Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers

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  Sleep, Fire, Flames

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• Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.

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  Simplicity, Purity, Enjoy

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• Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.

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  Men, Anxiety, Soul

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• It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

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  Life, Long, Giving

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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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• Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

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  Love, Thinking, Criminal Mind

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• Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

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  Sight, Doe, Add

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• He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.

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  Honor, Littles, Height

  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.1516, 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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