Thomas a Kempis Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Freedom, Passion

• Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Simplicity, Affection

• It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Mean, Adversity, Love Is

• Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Wings, Two

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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