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Thomas a Kempis

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Thomas à Kempis was a German-Dutch Catholic canon regular of the Augustinians and the author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian devotional books.

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Notable works: Imitation of Christ

About Thomas a Kempis

Thomas à Kempis was a German-Dutch Catholic canon regular of the Augustinians and the author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian devotional books. His name means "Thomas of Kempen", Kempen, Germany, being his home town.

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Quotes by Thomas a Kempis

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.

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Diversity

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And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book…

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Book

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Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our…

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Adversity

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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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Accounts

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It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.

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Easier

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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.

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Achievement

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“0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor…

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Art

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If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God…

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Assistance

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“No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth to hold…

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Peace

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“Nature has a relish for knowing secrets and hearing news. It wishes to appear abroad and to have sense experiences. It wishes…

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Grace

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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…

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Burning

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

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Bears

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Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

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Being thankful

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If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

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Acceptance

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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

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Comfort

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“Your assignment is to love everyone, accepting all that happens to you.”

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Love

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Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

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Might

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A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.

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Depth

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A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster…

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Amendments

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Temptations discover what you are.

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Temptation

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O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

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Children

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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

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Architecture

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Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

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Every man

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“He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The…

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God

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Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

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Clay

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Thomas a Kempis by topic

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