Avoid idleness.  Seek to always be doing some useful work for the community.

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Control gluttony and you will better dominate all of your bad inclinations.

Book: Imitation of Christ, by Thomas de Kempis

More than the appearance, what is important is what we live within, before God.

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In order to live in community, it is necessary to be crazy for the cause of Christ.

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We correct others with rigor but we don’t want to correct ourselves.

Book: Imitation of Christ, by Thomas de Kempis

Give more attention to your own self than to what others are doing.

Book: Imitation of Christ, by Thomas de Kempis

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Fire tests the iron, temptation the just one.

Book: Imitation of Christ, by Thomas de Kempis

While we live in this world we cannot escape from tribulations and temptations because they are born within our own …

It is hard to change habits, especially when it involves going against our will.

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To obey is a great thing; to live submitted, knowing that you are not the lord of yourself.

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All disordered desire causes restlessness.

Book: Imitation of Christ, by Thomas de Kempis

The true sage is the one who does the Will of God and not their own.

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The one who is truly great is the one who considers themselves to be small and who does not give …

Much is done by the one who loves much.

Book: Imitation of Christ, by Thomas de Kempis

In the moment of judgment noone will be interrogated about the books that they read, but about the good that …