Thomas Kempis Quotes
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He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. ~Thomas Kempis - Blame
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it. ~Thomas Kempis - Thoughts and Thinking
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man. ~Thomas Kempis - Adversity
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love. ~Thomas Kempis - Love
It is much safer to obey, than to govern. ~Thomas Kempis - Obedience
How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love. ~Thomas Kempis - Love
Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble. ~Thomas Kempis - Heart
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. ~Thomas Kempis - Absence
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. ~Thomas Kempis - Heart
Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross. ~Thomas Kempis - Work, Hard
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world. ~Thomas Kempis - Memory
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless. ~Thomas Kempis - Love
You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden? ~Thomas Kempis - Virtue
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation. ~Thomas Kempis - Conversation
Man proposes, but God disposes. ~Thomas Kempis - God
Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement. ~Thomas Kempis - Quality
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ~Thomas Kempis - Weakness
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere. ~Thomas Kempis - Freedom
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. ~Thomas Kempis - Goals
The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock. ~Thomas Kempis - Enemies
The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be. ~Thomas Kempis - Planning
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 many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down. ~Thomas Kempis - Love
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. ~Thomas Kempis - Mind
The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself. ~Thomas Kempis - Self-understanding
The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own. ~Thomas Kempis - Self-esteem
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons. ~Thomas Kempis - Fear
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor. ~Thomas Kempis - Peace
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune. ~Thomas Kempis - God
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him. ~Thomas Kempis - Simplicity
Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions. ~Thomas Kempis - Tolerance
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. ~Thomas Kempis - Peace
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are. ~Thomas Kempis - Peace
Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change. ~Thomas Kempis - Change
Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last. ~Thomas Kempis - Friends and Friendship
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. ~Thomas Kempis - Books and Reading
Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself. ~Thomas Kempis - Spirit and Spirituality
Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do. ~Thomas Kempis - God
Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great. ~Thomas Kempis - Flattery
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life. ~Thomas Kempis - Life and Living
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. ~Thomas Kempis - Self-knowledge
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. ~Thomas Kempis - Purity
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will. ~Thomas Kempis - God
Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is. ~Thomas Kempis - Adversity
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. ~Thomas Kempis - Duty
Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. ~Thomas Kempis - Influence
Love makes everything that is heavy light. ~Thomas Kempis - Love
Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you. ~Thomas Kempis - Christians and Christianity
It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment. ~Thomas Kempis - Judgment and Judges
He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds. ~Thomas Kempis - Giving
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ~Thomas Kempis - Temptation
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