Thomas a Kempis Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sight, Doe, Add

• He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Mean, Humility, Men

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Confidence, Peace

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

• Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Drinking, Adversity

• Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Criticism, Flattery, Praise

• He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heart, Men, Sight

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