Quotes by : Thomas à Kempis

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

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If....

God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without fault,....

Do not let your peace depend on the words of men. Their thinking well or badly of you does not make you....

The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere. No matter where you may go, you cannot....

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

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

The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But....

When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never....