394 Quotes by Thomas à Kempis

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love....

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. For a person's merits are not to be estimated by having many visions, or by knowledge of the bible, or by being placed in a higher position; but by being grounded in true humility, and by seeking always, purely, and entirely, the honor of God.

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.