394 Quotes by Thomas à Kempis

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort, but few who desire His suffering. All want to rejoice with him, but few are willing to suffer for Him. He writes; there are many who admire his miracles, but there are few who follow in the humiliation of the cross.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.