Thomas a Kempis Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

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

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  Peace, Firsts, Tranquility

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

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  Peace, Men, Desire

• Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

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  Life, Confidence, Peace

  Thomas (a Kempis) (1850). “The Imitation of Christ: Four Books”, p.67

• The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

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  Wise, Peace, Humble

• 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

• 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

• Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

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  Peace, Inward, Crowns

• Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

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  Peace, Grief, Fall

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.300, Cosimo, Inc.

• Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

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  Peace, Peace And Happiness, Labor

• A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.

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  Peace, Learning, Men

• We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

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  Peace, Should Have, Busy

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