If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

—Thomas à Kempis

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Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 1 May 1471; German: Thomas von Kempen; Dutch: Thomas van Kempen) was a German-Dutch Catholic canon regular of the Augustinians and the author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian devotional books. His name means "Thomas of Kempen", Kempen, Germany,...

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Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

—Thomas à 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?

—Thomas à Kempis

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

—Thomas à Kempis

God has… ordered things that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for there is no man without his faults, none without his burden. None is sufficient unto himself; none is wise in himself; therefore, we must support one another, comfort, help, teach, and advise one another.

—Thomas à Kempis

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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

—Thomas à Kempis

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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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Yes, God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

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