Thomas à Kempis - Rest Quotes

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If thou seek rest in this life, how wilt them then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace — not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

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Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.

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Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

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Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

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

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Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.

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Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

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Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor?

In Latin: Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?

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