Thomas a Kempis Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Fighting, Men, Giving

• For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Giving, Grace, Overcoming

• 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 a Kempis

  Heaven, Grace, Soul

• To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Grace, Able, Persons

  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.1588, Moody Publishers

• 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.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Thank You, Mean, Blessing

• When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Spiritual, Powerful, Giving

• Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sleep, Fire, Flames

• Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Teacher, Heart, Light

• He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Grace, Enough, Grace Of God

• The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Grace, Inward, Affliction

• Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Grace, Strive, Obedience

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