"As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man."

Kempis, Thomas on Adversity
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"Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is."

Kempis, Thomas on Adversity
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"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."

Kempis, Thomas on Duty
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"The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock."

Kempis, Thomas on Enemies
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"Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons."

Kempis, Thomas on Fear
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"Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great."

Kempis, Thomas on Flattery
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"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."

Kempis, Thomas on Freedom
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"Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last."

Kempis, Thomas on Friends and Friendship
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"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."

Kempis, Thomas on Giving
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"Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view."

Kempis, Thomas on Goals
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"Man proposes, but God disposes."

Kempis, Thomas on God
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"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."

Kempis, Thomas on God
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"Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do."

Kempis, Thomas on God
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"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."

Kempis, Thomas on God
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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."

Kempis, Thomas on Heart
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"Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble."

Kempis, Thomas on Heart
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"Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be."

Kempis, Thomas on Influence
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"It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment."

Kempis, Thomas on Judgment and Judges
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"It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life."

Kempis, Thomas on Life and Living
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"How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love."

Kempis, Thomas on Love
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"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."

Kempis, Thomas on Love
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"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. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless."

Kempis, Thomas on Love
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"Love makes everything that is heavy light."

Kempis, Thomas on Love
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"Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love."

Kempis, Thomas on Love
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"Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world."

Kempis, Thomas on Memory
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"Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong."

Kempis, Thomas on Mind
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"It is much safer to obey, than to govern."

Kempis, Thomas on Obedience
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"Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor."

Kempis, Thomas on Peace
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"Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are."

Kempis, Thomas on Peace
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"First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."

Kempis, Thomas on Peace
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"The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be."

Kempis, Thomas on Planning
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"By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity."

Kempis, Thomas on Purity
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"Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement."

Kempis, Thomas on Quality
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"The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own."

Kempis, Thomas on self-esteem
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"An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning."

Kempis, Thomas on Self-knowledge
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"The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself."

Kempis, Thomas on Self-understanding
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"Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him."

Kempis, Thomas on Simplicity
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"Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself."

Kempis, Thomas on Spirit and Spirituality
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"He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men."

Kempis, Thomas on Blame
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"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."

Kempis, Thomas on Books - Reading
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