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Thomas à Kempis Quotes | Quotes said by Thomas à Kempis

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #1

    0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting.


  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #2

    A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #3

    A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #4

    All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #5

    Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #6

    Do not let your peace depend on the words of men. Their thinking well or badly of you does not make you different from what you are. Where are true peace and glory? Are they not in Me? He who neither cares to please men nor fears to displease them will enjoy great peace, for all unrest and distraction of the senses arise out of disorderly love and vain fear.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #7

    First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #8

    First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #9

    Go where thou wilt, seek what thou wilt, and thou shalt not find a higher way above, nor a safer way below, than the way of the holy Cross.
    - Thomas A Kempis (The Following of Christ)

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #10

    God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another, help, instruct, and admonish one another.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #11

    God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #12

    Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #13

    He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perverse and unworthy, but from every creature. He gratefully accepts all from the hand of God and counts it gain.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #14

    If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God's sake? But God has so ordained, that we may learn to bear with one another's burdens, for there is no man without fault, no man without burden, no man sufficient to himself nor wise enough. Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for 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.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #15

    If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #16

    If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #17

    If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day, what you have done and thought, for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #18

    If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded.
    A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #19

    If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #20

    In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

    (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #21

    In that day every trial borne in patience will be pleasing and the voice of iniquity will be stilled; the devout will be glad; the irreligious will mourn; and the mortified body will rejoice far more than if it had been pampered with every pleasure. Then the cheap garment will shine with splendor and the rich one become faded and worn; the poor cottage will be more praised than the gilded palace. In that day persevering patience will count more than all the power in this world; simple obedience will be exalted above all worldly cleverness; a good and clean conscience will gladden the heart of man far more than the philosophy of the learned; and contempt for riches will be of more weight than every treasure on earth.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #22

    In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #23

    It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled with pride, or even too eager to fall back upon external comforts.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #24

    It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things help us to be humble and shield us from vainglory. When to all outward appearances men give us no credit, when they do not think well of us, then we are more inclined to seek God Who sees our hearts. Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #25

    It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #26

    Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #27

    Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #28

    Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #29

    Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

  • Thomas à Kempis Quote #30

    Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good; Love alone lightens every burden, and makes the rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable. The love of Jesus is noble, and inspires us to great deeds; it moves us always to desire perfection. Love aspires to high things, and is held back by nothing base. Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born of God, and can rest only in God above all created things.

    Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails.

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