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Study To Do Another's Will Rather Than Thine Own. Choose Ever To Have Less Rather Than More. Seek Ever The Lower Place And To Be Subject To All; Ever Wish And Pray That The Will Of God May Be Perfectly Done In Thee And In All. Behold Such A Man Enters The Bounds Of Peace And Calm.

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Thomas A Kempis

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Study To Do Another's Will Rather Than Thine Own. Choose Ever To Have Less Rather Than More. Seek Ever The Lower Place And To Be Subject To All; Ever Wish And Pray That The Will Of God May Be Perfectly Done In Thee And In All. Behold Such A Man Enters The Bounds Of Peace And Calm.

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Sweet Shall Be Your Rest If Your Heart Does Not Reproach You.

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

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

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

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If Your Heart Were Sincere And Upright, Every Creature Would Be Unto You A Looking-glass Of Life And A Book Of Holy Doctrine.

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Be Yourself -the Man Who Is Neither Bent Upon Pleasing His Fellows Nor Afraid Of Offending Them Will Enjoy Great Peace.

God Is Able To Do More Than Man Can Understand.

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

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There Is No Creature So Small And Abject, That It Representeth Not The Goodness Of God.

Goodness Of God

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

At The Least Bear Patiently, If Thou Canst Not Joyfully.

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

The Glory Of The Good Is In Their Consciences, And Not In The Tongues Of Men.

But Because Many Endeavor To Get Knowledge Rather Than To Live Well, They Are Often Deceived And Reap Little Or No Benefit From Their Labor.

Be Therefore Thankful For The Least Gift, So Shalt Thou Be Worthy To Receive Greater.

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

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?

Scruples, Temptations, And Fears, And Cutting Perplexities Of The Heart, Are Often The Lot Of The Most Excellent Persons.

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

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

He Who Loveth God With All His Heart Feareth Not Death, Nor Punishment, Nor Judgment, Nor Hell, Because Perfect Love Giveth Sure Access To God. But He Who Still Delighteth In Sin, No Marvel If He Is Afraid Of Death And Judgment.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anyone Who Thinks Hard Work Will Never Hurt You Has Never Had To Pay To Have It Done. Jesus Now Has Many Lovers Of His Heavenly Kingdom, But Few Bearers Of His Cross.

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

Don't Flatter The Rich, Or Appear To Willing Before The Great.

Love Flies, Runs, And Rejoices; It Is Free And Nothing Can Hold It Back.

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind. The Absent Are Always In The Wrong.

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Our Own Opinion Of Ourselves Should Be Lower Than That Formed By Others, For We Have A Better Chance At Our Imperfections.

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

Whoever Strives To Withdraw From Obedience, Withdraws From Grace.

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.

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.

It Is Thy Duty Often Times To Do What Thou Wouldst Not; Thy Duty Too, To Leave Undone That Thou Wouldst Do.

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.

Occasions Do Not Make A Man Either Strong Or Weak But They Show What He Is.

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

He Rides Pleasantly Enough Whom The Grace Of God Carries.

There Is No Man In This World Without Some Manner Of Tribulation Or Anguish, Though He Be King Or Pope.

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

My Child, It Will Be Better For You If You Accept My Decisions Without Complaint. Do Not Ask Me To Defend My Actions Or To Explain Why One Person Is Favored And Another Seems Slighted. The Answers To These Questions Go Far Beyond Your Comprehension.

Love Feels No Burden, Thinks Nothing Of Trouble, Attempts What Is Above Its Strength.... It Is Therefore Able To Undertake All Things, And It Completes Many Things, And Warrants Them To Take Effect, Where He Who Does Not Love Would Faint And Lie Down.

Many Deceive Themselves, Imagining They'll Find Happiness In Change.

Finding Happiness

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.

Caution Is Crediting, And Reserve In Speaking, And In Revealing One's Self To But Very Few, Are The Best Securities Both Of A Good Understanding With The World, And Of The Inward Peace Of Our Own Minds.

Remember, Your Prerogative Is To Govern, And Not To Serve The Things Of This World.

All Is Vanity But To Love God And Serve Him.

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.

Activate Yourself To Duty By Remembering Your Position, Who You Are, And What You Have Obliged Yourself To Be.

The Measure Of Every Man’s Virtue Is Best Revealed In Time Of Adversity - Adversity That Does Not Weaken A Man But Rather Shows What He Is.

He Does Much Who Loves God Much, And He Does Much Who Does His Deed Well, And He Does His Deed Well Who Does It Rather For The Common Good Than For His Own Will.

Habit Is Overcome By Habit. [lat., Consuetudo Consuetudine Vincitur.]

And If Thy Heart Be Straight With God Then Every Creature Shall Be To Thee A Mirror Of Life And A Book Of Holy Doctrine For There Is No Creature So Little Or So Despised But That Sheweth And Representeth The Goodness Of God.

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.

Study To Do Another's Will Rather Than Thine Own. Choose Ever To Have Less Rather Than More. Seek Ever The Lower Place And To Be Subject To All; Ever Wish And Pray That The Will Of God May Be Perfectly Done In Thee And In All. Behold Such A Man Enters The Bounds Of Peace And Calm.

It Thou Seek Rest In This Life, How Wilt Thou Then Attain To The Everlasting Rest? Dispose Not Thyself For Much Rest, But For Great Patience. Seek True Peace--not In Earth, But In Heaven; Not In Men, Nor In Any Other Creature, But In God Alone.

If You Would Endeavor, Like Men Of Courage, To Stand In The Battle, Surely We Would Feel The Favorable Assistance Of God From Heaven. For He Who Give The Us Occasion To Fight, To The End We May Get The Victory, Is Ready To Succor Those That Fight Manfully, And Do Trust In His Grace.

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

Simplicity Reaches Out After God; Purity Discovers And Enjoys Him.

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

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.

Do Not Interfere When Your Opinion Is Not Sought.

Know All And You Will Pardon All.

I Have Often Heard, That It Is Safer To Hear And To Take Counsel, Than To Give It.

Leave Off That Excessive Desire Of Knowing; Therein Is Found Much Distraction. There Are Many Things The Knowledge Of Which Is Of Little Or No Profit To The Soul.

Too Many Instances There Are Of Daring Men, Who By Presuming To Sound The Deep Things Of Religion, Have Cavilled And Argued Themselves Out Of All Religion.

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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