All Thomas a Kempis Quotes
- If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate… Advantage
- To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection. Account
- How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love. Bathe
- Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes… Able
- Love makes everything that is heavy light. Famous Love
- We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected… Amend
- Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus… All
- Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace. From
- First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Bring
- 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… All
- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Anger
- Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. Blame
- All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it. All
- Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. Endeavoring
- If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking? Cannot Mould
- He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. Buddhist
- What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. All
- A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. Distracted
- Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. All
- Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. Absent
- Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all. All
- Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is. Either Strong
- Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. All
- What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? Anxiety
- Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. Activate