Quotes by : Thomas à Kempis

Not every affection which seems good is to be immediately followed. Neither is every opposite affection....

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

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....

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal....

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....

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate....

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.....