Thomas à Kempis Quotes
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.
A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.
At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.
The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
Go where thou wilt, seek what thou wilt, and thou shalt not find a higher way above, nor a safer way below, than the way of the holy Cross."- Thomas A Kempis (The Following of Christ)
If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.
Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with His Glory!
Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.