394 Quotes by Thomas à Kempis

Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?

Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.