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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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• 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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• Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

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  Wings, Two, Simplicity

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• Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

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  Art, Fighting, Overcoming

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• I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

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  Pride, Two, Credit

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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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• 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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• Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.

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  Spiritual, Light, People

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• Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

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  Love, Light, Burden

  Thomas A Kempis, Wyatt North (1617). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.55, Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

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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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• It is much safer to obey than to rule.

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  Scary

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• God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.

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  Encouragement, Love You, Important

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• It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

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  Able, Repentance, Feels

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• I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

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  Giving, Heard

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

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  Grace, Inward, Affliction

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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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• All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

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  Men, Frail, Frailty

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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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• We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.

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  Passion, Thinking, Zeal

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• Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.

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  Heart, Soul, Lovers

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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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• He does much who loves much.

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  Doe

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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

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  Flattery, Rich, Willing

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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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