Thomas a Kempis Quotes

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• If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

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  Mirrors, Self, Want

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• When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

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  Inspirational Life, Mind

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• Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

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  Thinking, Intelligence

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

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  Life, Relationship, Teacher

  "The Imitation of Christ. Book I, ch. 16". Book by Thomas a Kempis, 1418.

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• For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

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  Christian, Journey, Men

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• Man sees your actions, but God your motives.

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  Men, Action, Motive

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• If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.

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  Wisdom, Peace, Men

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Writing, Miracle

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• Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never be without strife and grief. Thus, we should not strive for a peace that is without temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity. Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation.

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  Peace, Grief, Adversity

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• Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

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  God, Thinking, Giving

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• To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Seeds of Contemplation". Book by Thomas Merton, 1949.

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• Habit is overcome by habit.

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  Overcoming, Habit

  Thomas a Kempis, Aeterna Press (1941*). “The Following of Christ”, p.78, Aeterna Press

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Perfection, Joy

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• It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. For a person's merits are not to be estimated by having many visions, or by knowledge of the bible, or by being placed in a higher position; but by being grounded in true humility, and by seeking always, purely, and entirely, the honor of God.

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  Humility, Understanding, Honor

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• Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.

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  Thank You, Mean, Blessing

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• The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.

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  Crowns, Lovers, Lord

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• For man plans, but God arranges.

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  Faith, Men, Plans

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• You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

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  Religious, Men, Silence

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• Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.

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  Perfect, Patient, Submission

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• Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

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  Distance, Lying, Gossip

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• At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

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  Liberty, Done, Libertarian

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• 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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  Running, Giving, Joy

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• Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.

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  Love, Christian, Confused

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• Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

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  Inspirational, Humble, Clay

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• Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

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  Way, Ready, Unprepared

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