Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

By Thomas a Kempis

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

By Thomas a Kempis

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

By Thomas a Kempis

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

By Thomas a Kempis

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

By Thomas a Kempis

Remember that lost time does not return.

By Thomas a Kempis

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

By Thomas a Kempis

Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

By Thomas a Kempis

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

By Thomas a Kempis

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 for itself, and all things possible.

By Thomas a Kempis

Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.

By Thomas a Kempis

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

By Thomas a Kempis

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

By Thomas a Kempis

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will

By Thomas a Kempis

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

By Thomas a Kempis

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.

By Thomas a Kempis

Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater.

By Thomas a Kempis

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

By Thomas a Kempis

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

By Thomas a Kempis