Quotes By Thomas A Kempis

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.

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.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

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

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

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

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

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

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

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

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Remember that lost time does not return.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.