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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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• You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

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  God, Angel, Men

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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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• 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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• Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole world. Poorest of all is he who lives without Jesus, and richest of all is he who stands in favor with Jesus.

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  Faith, Jesus, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.

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  Love, Christian, Confused

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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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• Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.

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  Stars, Humble, Men

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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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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• Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

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  Knowledge, People, Littles

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

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

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  Anxiety, Sorrow, Doe

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

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  Crosses, Ifs

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• You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

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  Religious, Men, Silence

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from me, oftentimes I am nearest unto thee. When thou countest almost all to be lost, then oftentimes the greatest gain of reward is close at hand. All is not lost, when any thing falleth out contrary. Thou oughtest not to judge according to present feeling; nor so to take any grief, or give thyself over to it.

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  Grief, Heart, Hands

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