Thomas a Kempis Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Simple, Men, Wings

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspirational, Humble, Clay

• Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Spiritual, Love Is, Heaven

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

• How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity, Heaven, Suffering

• It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.194, Cambridge University Press

• O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Passing Away, Earth, Glory

  "Imitation of Christ", Book I, Chapter III. 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 313-14, 1922.

• What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heaven, Earth, Elements

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1556, Moody Publishers

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin