Thomas à Kempis Quotes

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Sic transit gloria mundi [So passes away the glory of this world].

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At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

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If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

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O that we had spent but one day in this world thoroughly well!

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Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

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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.

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Nobody rules safely but he who has learned well how to obey.

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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.

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Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.

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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience.

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It is much safer to be in a subordinate position than in authority.

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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.

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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

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Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.

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He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.

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Never be completely idle, but either reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or at some useful work for the common good.

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Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys him.

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For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are.

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Truly at the day of judgment we shall not be examined as to what we have read, but as to what we have done; not as to how well we have spoken, but as to how religiously we have lived.

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Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

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I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.

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

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

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Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole world. Poorest of all is he who lives without Jesus, and richest of all is he who stands in favor with Jesus.

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Without the Way,
there is no going,
Without the Truth,
there is no knowing,
Without the Life,
there is no living.

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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

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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.

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How fast passes away the glory of this world.

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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

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