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In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.
— 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
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
— Thomas A Kempis
Temptations discover what you are.
— Thomas A Kempis
Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
— Thomas A Kempis
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
— Thomas A Kempis
To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom.
— Thomas A Kempis
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
— Thomas A Kempis
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Salvation by the cross.[Lat., In cruce salus.] — Thomas A Kempis
Satan leaves unbelievers and sinners alone because he already has them in his grip; he goes after believers who are faithful and devout.
— Thomas A Kempis
As often as I have been among men, I have returned home a lesser man.
— Thomas A Kempis
Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.
— Thomas A Kempis
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
— Thomas A Kempis
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
— Thomas A Kempis
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
— Thomas A Kempis
For man plans, but God arranges.
— Thomas A Kempis
We shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.
— Thomas A Kempis
The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
— Thomas A Kempis
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
— Thomas A Kempis
Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.
— Thomas A Kempis
He only is truly great, who hath great charity. He is truly great who deemeth himself small, and counteth all height of honour as nothing.
— Thomas A Kempis
He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.
— Thomas A Kempis
He who shunneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.
— Thomas A Kempis
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
— Thomas A Kempis
It's meaningless to live a long life if you think only about yourself, and give no thought to caring about others.
— Thomas A Kempis
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
— Thomas A Kempis
Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.
— Thomas A Kempis
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying.[Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.] — Thomas A Kempis
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
— Thomas A Kempis
Nothing will hinder you more than thinking only about yourself.
— Thomas A Kempis
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
— Thomas A Kempis
A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
— Thomas A Kempis
A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
— Thomas A Kempis
Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.
— Thomas A Kempis
Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.
— Thomas A Kempis
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
— Thomas A Kempis
Why seekest thou rest when thou art born to labour? Prepare thyself for patience more than for comforts, and for bearing the cross more than for joy.
— Thomas A Kempis
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
— Thomas A Kempis
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
— Thomas A Kempis
Remember that lost time does not return.
— Thomas A Kempis
To walk inwardly with God, and not to be held by any outer affections, is the state of a spiritual man.
— Thomas A Kempis
Seek a suitable time for thy meditation, and think frequently of the mercies of God to thee.
— Thomas A Kempis
Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!
— Thomas A Kempis
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
— Thomas A Kempis
Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
— Thomas A Kempis
When life feels heavy, these two remedies relieve life's complexities: simplicity and purity. Simplicity seeks God. Purity enjoys him.
— Thomas A Kempis
It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
— Thomas A Kempis
I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it.
— Thomas A Kempis
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
He doth much who loveth much. He doth much who doth well. He doth well who ministereth to the public good rather than to his own.
— Thomas A Kempis
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
— Thomas A Kempis
There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?
— 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 more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
— Thomas A Kempis
Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.
— Thomas A Kempis
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Habit is overcome by habit.[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] — Thomas A Kempis
Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.
— Thomas A Kempis
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
— Thomas A Kempis
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
— Thomas A Kempis
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.
— Thomas A Kempis
Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
— Thomas A Kempis
I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
— Thomas A Kempis
If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not.
— Thomas A Kempis
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
— Thomas A Kempis
Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
— Thomas A Kempis
My Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear.
— Thomas A Kempis
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
— Thomas A Kempis
If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.
— Thomas A Kempis
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
— Thomas A Kempis
A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.
— Thomas A Kempis
Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.
— Thomas A Kempis
It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
— Thomas A Kempis
How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
— Thomas A Kempis
He who would weigh well and rightly his own doings would not be the man to judge severely of another.
— Thomas A Kempis
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
— Thomas A Kempis
Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
— Thomas A Kempis
God is able to do more than man can understand.
— Thomas A Kempis
No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
— Thomas A Kempis
It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.
— Thomas A Kempis
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
— Thomas A Kempis
The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
— Thomas A Kempis
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
— Thomas A Kempis
If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.
— Thomas A Kempis
