394 Quotes by Thomas à Kempis

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater.

Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers

Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.