My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
Thomas a Kempis
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
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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.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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Remember that lost time does not return.
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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It is much safer to obey, than to govern.
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