394 Quotes by Thomas à Kempis

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death; trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.

He does much who loves much.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.

Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things. Whoever is weak in spirit, given to the flesh and inclined to sensual things can, but only with great difficulty, drag himself away from his earthly desires. Therefore he is often gloomy and sad when he is trying to pull himself away from them, and easily gives way to anger should someone attempt to oppose him.