Deliver me from evil passions, and cleanse my heart from al… - Thomas à Kempis

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Deliver me from evil passions, and cleanse my heart from all inordinate affections, that, being healed and altogether cleansed within, I may be made ready to love, strong to suffer, steadfast to endure.

Thomas à Kempis

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About Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471) was a German medieval Christian monk and author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian books on devotion.

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Pen Names: Tomáš Hemerken Kempenský

Alternative Names: Thomas von Kempen • Thomas Hammerlein • Thomas Hemerken • Thomas Hämerken • Malleolus • Thomas a Kempis • Thomas von Kempen à Kempis • Hämerkin • Hämmerlein • Thomas Haemerkken

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Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention; purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God; purity apprehends and tastes Him.

All therefore is vanity, save to love God and to serve Him only. .

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

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