394 Quotes by Thomas à Kempis

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children’s sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

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...

Don’t flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

Study to do another’s will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.

Oh, how quickly the world’s glory passes away.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity – adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience.

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

Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one’s self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.