Quotes By Thomas A Kempis
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas a Kempis
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
Thomas a Kempis
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Thomas a Kempis
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
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.
Thomas a Kempis
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
Thomas a Kempis
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Thomas a Kempis
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
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.
Thomas a Kempis
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis
At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
Thomas a Kempis