Thomas p Kempis

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

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 p Kempis

Love makes everything that is heavy light.
Thomas p Kempis

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 p Kempis

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Thomas p Kempis

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
Thomas p Kempis

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
Thomas p Kempis

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 p Kempis

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
Thomas p Kempis

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 p Kempis

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 p Kempis

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
Thomas p Kempis

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.
Thomas p Kempis

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 p Kempis

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
Thomas p Kempis

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 p Kempis

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.
Thomas p Kempis

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 p Kempis

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 p Kempis

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 p Kempis

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
Thomas p Kempis

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.
Thomas p Kempis

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 p Kempis

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 p Kempis

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 p Kempis

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
Thomas p Kempis

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
Thomas p Kempis

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
Thomas p Kempis

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 p Kempis

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
Thomas p Kempis

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
Thomas p Kempis

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
Thomas p Kempis

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 p Kempis

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
Thomas p Kempis

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Thomas p Kempis

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
Thomas p Kempis

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
Thomas p Kempis

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
Thomas p Kempis

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 p 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 Kempis

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
Thomas 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 Kempis

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

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

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

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
Thomas a Kempis

Remember that lost time does not return.
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

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

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas Kempis