Quotes by : Thomas à Kempis

If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God's sake? But God has so ordained,....

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like....

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the....

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside....

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account!....

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you....

Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For....