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One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

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Wise, Reality, Views

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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Faith, Cutting, Anxiety

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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God, Wise, Strong

No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

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Self Control, Labor, Severe

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

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Quality, Improvement, Hours

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

Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening, if thou spend the day profitably.

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Evening, Rejoice, Ifs
"The Imitation of Christ in Four Books".

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

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Art, Trouble, Glory

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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Wisdom, Thinking, Perfection

Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.

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Grace, Strive, Obedience

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

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Evil, Laziness, Overcoming

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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Sports, Children, Self
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 536, 1895.

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.

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Benefits, Littles, Endeavor

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

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Conversation, Qualified, Converses

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

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Heaven, Earth, Elements
St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1556, Moody Publishers

In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.

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Jesus, Enemy

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

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Sorrow, Able, Sin

Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.

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Fall

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

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Men, Judgment, Every Man
Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

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Men, Madness, Proportion

Man proposes, but God disposes.

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God, Religious, Men
'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 1, ch. 19, sect. 2

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

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Pain, Saint, Spirit

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

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Men, Safe
Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

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Men, Tongue, Glory
Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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.

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God, People, Purpose

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