Quotes from Thomas a Kempis
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
- Thomas a Kempis
Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.
- Thomas a Kempis
Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
- Thomas a Kempis
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
- Thomas a Kempis
Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
- Thomas a Kempis
Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.
- Thomas a Kempis
The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
- Thomas a Kempis
At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
- Thomas a Kempis
Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.
- Thomas a Kempis
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
- Thomas a Kempis
The measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
- Thomas a Kempis
Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.
- Thomas a Kempis