Thomas a 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.
Thomas a Kempis

Anger, Yourself, Angry

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

Love, Strength, Nothing

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

Peace, Yourself, Others

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
Thomas a Kempis

Life, Truth, Living

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

Patience, Men, Few

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

Good, Writing, Public

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

Yourself, Cannot, Wish

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

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

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
Thomas a Kempis

Himself, Distracted, Outward

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Thomas a Kempis

God, Knowledge, Learning

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

Fight, Himself, Striving

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

Great, Heart, Blame

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

Love, Gift, Lover

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Thomas a Kempis

Faith, Follow, Destroy

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

Strong, Show, Weak

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

Sad, Future, Else

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

Yourself, Duty, Position

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
Thomas a Kempis

Knew, Pardon, Assured

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Thomas a Kempis

Peace, Conscience, Content

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

Peace, Great, God

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

Nature, Two, Earth

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.
Thomas a Kempis

Good, Courage, Yourself

Man proposes, but God disposes.
Thomas a Kempis

God, Disposes, Proposes

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

Done, Read, Shall

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