Words matter. These are the best Thomas a Kempis Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
Remember that lost time does not return.
A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
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.
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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.
Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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.
