Thomas p Kempis Quotes (31 Quotes)

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

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

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

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

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

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

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

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

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.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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