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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.

-Thomas A Kempis

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A Disciple Once Complained,

Thomas A Kempis

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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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So Passes Away The Glory Of This World. ('sic Transit Gloria Mundi.')

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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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.

Always Be Ready; Always Live In Such A Way That Death Can Never Find You Unprepared.

Cling, Therefore, To Jesus In Life And Death; Trust Yourself To The Glory Of Him Who Alone Can Help You When All Others Fail.

He Is Truly Great Who Is Little In His Own Eyes And Makes Nothing Of The Highest

Whoever Would Fully And Feelingly Understand The Words Of Christ, Must Endeavor To Conform His Life Wholly To The Life Of Christ.

As Iron Cast Into Fire Loses Its Rust And Becomes Glowing White, So He Who Turns Completely To God Is Stripped Of His Sluggishness And Changed Into A New Man.

A Man Is Hindered And Distracted In Proportion As He Draws Outward Things To Himself.

To Say That I Am Made In The Image Of God Is To Say That Love Is The Reason For My Existence, For God Is Love.

Always Be Thou Prepared, And So Live That Death May Never Find Thee Unprepared.

The Intention Which Is Fixed On God As Its Only End Will Keep People Steady In Their Purposes, And Deliver Them From Being The Joke And Scorn Of Fortune.

Happy Is The Man Who Renounces Everything Which May Bring A Stain Or Burden Upon His Conscience

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I Would Far Rather Feel Remorse Than Know How To Define It.

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Is A Man One Whit The Better Because He Is Grown Great In Other Men's Esteem?

In The Morning Fix Thy Good Purpose; And At Night Examine Thyself What Thou Hast Done, How Thou Hast Behaved Thyself In Word, Deed, And Thought.

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.

In Jesus And For Him, Enemies And Friends Alike Are To Be Loved.

Who Has A Harder Fight Than He Who Is Striving To Overcome Himself.

Out Of Two Evils, The Less Is Always To Be Chosen.

What Thou Art, That Thou Art.

In Judging Others A Man Laboreth In Vain; He Often Erreth, And Easily Falleth Into Sin; But In Judging And Examining Himself He Always Laboreth To Good Purpose.

Constantly Choose Rather To Want Less, Than To Have More.

May Not Be Your Peace In The Mouth Of The Men; Since No Matter If They Thing Good Or Bad About You, You Should Not Be A Different Man Because Of That.

All Men Commend Patience, Although Few Are Willing To Practice It.

Be Thankful For The Smallest Blessing, And You Will Be Worthy To Receive Greater.

It Is Easier Not To Speak A Word At All Than To Speak More Words Than We Should.

He That Avoideth Not Small Faults, By Little And Little Falleth Into Greater.

Let Not Your Peace Rest In The Utterances Of Men, For Whether They Put A Good Or Bad Construction On Your Conduct Does Not Make You Other Than You Are.

All Men Are Frail; But Thou Shouldst Reckon None So Frail As Thyself.

He That Seeks Here Any Other Thing But Simply God And The Salvation Of His Soul, Will Find Nothing But Trouble And Sorrow.

Be Not Angry That You Cannot Make Others As You Wish Them To Be, Since You Cannot Make Yourself As You Wish To Be.

Of Two Evils, The Lesser Must Always Be Chosen De Duobus Malis, Minus Est Semper Eligendum

Confidence Is The Illusion Born Of Accidental Success.

Have Therefore Zeal To Better Thyself And Then Mayst Thou Have Zeal To Thy Neighbor.

He Is Truly Great Who Hath A Great Charity.

Why Seekest Thou Rest, Since Thou Art Born To Labor? [lat., Cur Quaeris Quietem, Quam Natus Sis Ad Laborem?]

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For The Multitude Of Worldly Friends Profiteth Not, Nor May Strong Helpers Anything Avail, Nor Wise Counselors Give Profitable Counsel, Nor The Cunning Of Doctors Give Consolation, Nor Riches Deliver In Time Of Need, Nor A Secret Place To Defend, If Thou, Lord, Do Not Assist, Help, Comfort, Counsel, Inform, And Defend.

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It Is Better To Feel Repentance, Than To Be Able To Define It.

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Temptations Discover What You Are.

When Anger Enters The Mind, Wisdom Departs.

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The Highest In God's Esteem Are The Lowest In Their Own.

No One Can Obtain From The Pope A Dispensation For Never Dying. [lat., Nemo Impetrare Potest A Papa Bullam Numquam Moriendi.]

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If You Cast Away One Cross, You Will Certainly Find Another, And Perhaps A Heavier.

Oh, How Great Peace And Quietness Would He Possess Who Should Cut Off All Vain Anxiety And Place All His Confidence In God.

A Lover Of Jesus And Of The Truth Can Lift Himself Above Himself In Spirit.

No Man Is Safe Above But He That Will Gladly Be Beneath.

Few Spirits Are Made Better By The Pain And Languor Of Sickness; As Few Great Pilgrims Become Eminent Saints.

To Take No Account Of Oneself, But Always To Think Well And Highly Of Others Is The Highest Wisdom And Perfection.

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Love Feels No Burden, Regards Not Labors, Strives Toward More Than It Attains, Argues Not Of Impossibility, Since It Believes That It May And Can Do All Things.

If You Wish To Live In Peace And Harmony With Others, You Must Learn To Discipline Yourself In Many Ways.

Thou Art My Glory And The Exultation Of Y Heart: Thou Art My Hope And Refuge In The Day Of My Trouble.

Let Temporal Things Serve Thy Use, But The Eternal Be The Object Of Thy Desire.

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.

It Is No Little Wisdom For You To Keep Yourself In Silence And In Good Peace When Evil Words Are Spoken To You, And To Turn Your Heart To God And Not To Be Troubled With The Judgment Of Others.

How Sweet It Is To Love, And To Be Dissolved, And As It Were To Bathe Myself In Thy Love.

A Man Of Peace Does More Good Than A Very Learned Man.

Both Above And Below, Without And Within, Which Way So Ever Thou Dost Turn Thee, Everywhere Thou Shalt Find The Cross; And Everywhere Of Necessity Thou Must Hold Fast Patience, If Thou Wilt Have Inward Peace, And Enjoy An Everlasting Crown.

Wherever You Go, You Will Always Bear Yourself About With You, And So You Will Always Find Yourself.

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Of Sight Out Of Mind

Love Is A Great Thing, A Good Above All Others, Which Alone Maketh Every Burden Light.

Oh, How Swiftly The Glory Of The World Passes Away!

It Is Futile To Wish For A Long Life, And Then To Give So Little Care To Living Well.

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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All Is Vanity But To Love God And Serve Him.

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No Man Doth Safely Rule, But He That Hath Learned Gladly To Obey.

Set Not Thyself To Attain Much Rest, But Much Patience.

A Book Has But One Voice, But It Does Not Instruct Everyone Alike.

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Know All And You Will Pardon All.

God Deceiveth Thee Not.

If You Carry Your Cross Joyfully, It Will Carry You.

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By Two Wings A Man Is Lifted Up From Things Earthly: By Simplicity And Purity.

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Man Proposes, But God Disposes.

Carry The Cross Patiently, And With Perfect Submission; And In The End It Shall Carry You.

Man Sees Your Actions, But God Your Motives.

We Are Sometimes Stirred By Emotion And Take It For Zeal.

Salvation By The Cross. [lat., In Cruce Salus.]

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Permit No Hour To Go By Without It Due Improvement.

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Set Me Free From Evil Passions, And Heal My Heart Of All Inordinate Affections; That Being Inwardly Cured And Thoroughly Cleansed, I May Be Made Fit To Love, Courageous To Suffer, Steady To Persevere.

Be Assured That If You Knew All, You Would Pardon All.

No Man Is Without His Load Of Trouble.

A Sure Way Of Retaining The Grace Of Heaven Is To Disregard Outward Appearances, And Diligently To Cultivate Such Things As Foster Amendment Of Life And Fervour Of Soul, Rather Than To Cultivate Those Qualities That Seem Most Popular.

God Is Able To Do More Than Man Can Understand.

If You Bear The Cross Gladly, It Will Bear You.

Intelligence Must Follow Faith, Never Precede It, And Never Destroy It.

He Does Much Who Loves Much.

He Who Knows Himself Well Is Mean And Abject In His Own Sight, And Takes No Delight In The Vain Praise Of Men.

No Man Ruleth Safely But He That Is Willingly Ruled.

Gladly We Desire To Make Other Men Perfect, But We Will Not Amend Our Own Fault.

Peace And Happiness Are What You Covet, But These Are Only To Be Obtained By Labor.

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Oh How Swiftly The Glory Of The World Passes Away! If Only The Lives Of These Men Had Been As Admirable As Their Learning, Their Study And Reading Would Have Been To Good Purpose! But How Many In This World Care Little For The Service Of God, And Perish In Their Vain Learning. Because They Choose To Be Great Rather Than Humble, They Perish In Their Own Conceit.

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.

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.

My God, Sweetness Beyond Words, Make Bitter All The Carnal Comfort That Draws Me From Love Of The Eternal And Lures Me To Its Evil Self By The Sight Of Some Delightful Good In The Present. Let It Not Overcome Me, My God. Let Not Flesh And Blood Conquer Me. Let Not The World And Its Brief Glory Deceive Me, Nor The Devil Trip Me By His Craftiness. Give Me Courage To Resist, Patience To Endure, And Constancy To Persevere. Give Me The Soothing Unction Of Your Spirit Rather Than All The Consolations Of The World, And In Place Of Carnal Love, Infuse Into Me The Love Of Your Name.

Love Is A Great Thing...which Alone Maketh Every Burden Light.. Love Is Watchful, And While Sleeping, Still Keeps Watch; Though Fatigued, It Is Not Weary; Though Pressed, It Is Not Forced. Love Is Sincere, Gentle, Strong, Patient, Faithful, Prudent, Long-suffering, And Manly. Love Is Humble And Upright, Not Weak, Not Fickle, Nor Intent On Vain Things; Sober Chaste, Steadfast, Quiet, And Guarded In All The Senses.

Oh, How Quickly The World's Glory Passes Away.

Love Is A Mighty Power, A Great And Complete Good. Love Alone Lightens Every Burden, And Makes Rough Places Smooth. It Bears Every Hardship As Though It Were Nothing, And Renders All Bitterness Sweet And Acceptable.

The Enemy Is More Easily Overcome If He Be Not Suffered To Enter The Door Of Our Hearts, But Be Resisted Without The Gate At His First Knock.

He Rides Pleasantly Enough Whom The Grace Of God Carries.

Thy Peace Shall Be In Much Patience.

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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.

If You Can Talk And It's Convenient To Talk, Try To Say Things That Edify.

How Should Thy Patience Be Crowned In Heaven If None Adversity Should Befall To Thee In Earth? If Thou Wilt Suffer None Adversity How Mayest Thou Be The Friend Of Christ?

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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