Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“We are not wise in ourselves.7 So we must support one another,8 be tolerant of each other,9 help, teach and advise one… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Bear patiently your exile and the dryness of your mind. The time will come when I will make you forget these painful… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come? — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man’s virtue is… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven.… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth to hold his peace.… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“Nature has a relish for knowing secrets and hearing news. It wishes to appear abroad and to have sense experiences. It wishes to be… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
