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Us Quotes by Thomas a Kempis
- We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
- To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a…
- 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…
- O Lord, Thou knowest that which is best for us; let this or that be done, as Thou shalt please. Give what Thou wilt, how…
- We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
- 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…
- For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.
- We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected…
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