394 Quotes by Thomas à Kempis

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

God deceiveth thee not.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.