Thomas à Kempis Quotes

Constantly choose rather to want less than to have more.
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Oh how quickly the world's glory passes away.
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A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.
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What thou art that thou art.
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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.
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O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
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There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
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It is much safer to obey than to rule.
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O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
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There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
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It is much safer to obey than to rule.
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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.
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It is much safer to obey than to rule.
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Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.
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For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not nor may strong helpers anything avail nor wise counselors give profitable counsel nor the cunning of doctors give consolation nor riches deliver in time of need nor a secret place to defend if Thou Lord do not assist help comfort counsel inform and defend.
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A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.
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Man proposes God disposes.
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O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
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Know all and you will pardon all.
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And when he is out of sight quickly also he is out of mind.
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It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
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All His glory and beauty come from within and there He delights to dwell His visits there are frequent His conversation sweet His comforts refreshing and His peace passing all understanding.
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If you cast away one cross you will certainly find another and perhaps a heavier.
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If you bear the cross unwillingly you make it a burden and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.
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There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
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A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
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Not every affection which seems good is to be immediately followed. Neither is every opposite affection to be immediately avoided. Sometimes it is expedient to use restraint even in good desires and wishes, lest through importunity you fall into distraction of mind, lest through want of discipline you become a stumbling block to others.
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It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.
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A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.
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At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
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If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
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Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.
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God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.
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He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perverse and unworthy, but from every creature. He gratefully accepts all from the hand of God and counts it gain.
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Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which does little or no good to the soul, and he who concerns himself about other things than those which lead to salvation is very unwise.
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Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He Who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.
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If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded.A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
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The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.
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0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting.
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