394 Quotes by Thomas à Kempis

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

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

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

For man plans, but God arranges.

It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.