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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 great grace.

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 great grace.

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Grace, Able, Persons
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.1588, Moody Publishers

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.

Thomas a Kempis
Men, Doe, Utterance

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.

Thomas a Kempis
Love, Lying, Thinking

What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.

Thomas a Kempis
Art, Identity, Said
Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

Thomas a Kempis
Prayer, Consolation, Hinder

Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.

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Gods Will, Good Will, Assistance
Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot; and we oversight what is necessary; because every man goes towards the exterior; and if he doesn't regain consciousness quickly, with pleasure remain involved in it.

Thomas a Kempis
Men, Care, Littles

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Thomas a Kempis
Life, Confidence, Peace
Thomas (a Kempis) (1850). “The Imitation of Christ: Four Books”, p.67

He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

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Love, Flow, Highest

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

Thomas a Kempis
Heart, Errors, Simplicity

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Thomas a Kempis
Sin, Feels, Know How
'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 3

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

Thomas a Kempis
God, Self Esteem, Self Respect

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

Thomas a Kempis
Men
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.1554, Moody Publishers

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Thomas a Kempis
Reading, Writing, Laziness
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.1550, Moody Publishers

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.

Thomas a Kempis
Inspirational, Softball, Heart

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

Thomas a Kempis
Deeds, Doe, God Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Thomas a Kempis
Love, Sweet

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

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

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

Thomas a Kempis
God, Angel, Men

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

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

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

Thomas a Kempis
God, Learning, Humble

If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.

Thomas a Kempis
Jesus, Finding Yourself, Ruins

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

Thomas a Kempis
Christian, Heart, Humble
Thomas A'Kempis (2004). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.8, Hendrickson Publishers

Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.

Thomas a Kempis
Heart, Thee, Ifs
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.254, Cosimo, Inc.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

Thomas a Kempis
Balance, Neighbor
Thomas a Kempis, Aeterna Press (1941*). “The Following of Christ”, p.59, Aeterna Press

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