Quotes by Thomas à Kempis
Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) — Mystiker · Katholisch · Niederlande
Thomas von Kempen (um 1380–1471) war ein katholischer Geistlicher und Augustiner-Chorherr im Kloster Agnetenberg bei Zwolle sowie eine prägende Gestalt der spätmittelalterlichen Frömmigkeitsbewegung Devotio moderna. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch die Schrift „Von der Nachfolge Christi“, die eine Verinnerlichung des Glaubens, Demut und die praktische Orientierung an Jesus Christus in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Bibellesern bietet sein Werk bis heute sachliche Impulse zur geistlichen Selbstprüfung und zur gelebten Nachfolge im Alltag.
Era: The Middle Ages
Recurring topics: Humility & Pride, Faith & Trust, Growth & Character, Wisdom & Understanding, Peace & Rest, Love, Service & Love of Neighbour, Discipleship
Quotes by Thomas à Kempis
Whoever is carried by God's grace travels with light luggage.
Thomas à Kempis
God often gives in a single moment what he has withheld for a long time. For the Lord bestows blessing where he finds empty vessels.
Thomas à Kempis
When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God.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.
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Without inner love, all outward doing is worthless. But what is done out of love is great, it bears rich fruit, however small and unnoticed it may seem in human eyes. For on God's scale, what drives you to act weighs far more than the deed itself.
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Learn to have patience with others' faults; for behold, you too have much that others must bear.
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Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would like them to be, for you cannot even make yourself as you would like to be.
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Many words do not satisfy the soul, but a godly life refreshes the mind, and a good conscience gives great confidence toward God.
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Humble self-knowledge leads more surely to God than deep searching after learning.
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If thou didst know the whole Bible by heart…what would all that profit thee without the love of God and without His grace?
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I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it.
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I have never met a man so religious and devout that he has not experienced at some time a withdrawal of grace and felt a lessening of fervor.
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If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.
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He does much who loves much. He does much who does a thing well.
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Keep yourself first in peace, and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
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Where there is humility, there is lasting peace; but where pride rules, there is envy, there is anger, and a whole hell full of unrest.
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Lord, you know what is best: do it this way or that, as much as you want and whenever you want. Put me wherever you want and deal with me in everything according to your good pleasure. What should I fear, when you are near?
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What a person cannot change in himself or in others, he must bear with patience, until God makes it otherwise.
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We are very sensitive to the suffering others inflict on us, but we pay no attention to how much others suffer because of us.
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Happy is he who casts away from himself all that hinders and distracts him, and who is able to gather himself into one.
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Whoever is wise in love looks less at the gift of the giver than at the love of the one who gives.
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What you lack in perfection, make up for with humility.
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No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest honor.
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Now God has ordained it in this way and no other, that one should bear the burden of another; for no one is without fault, no one without a burden, and no one is self-sufficient in counsel in all things.
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Nowhere in the world has so great a miracle happened as in that little hut in Bethlehem; here God and man have become one.
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Truly, on the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done, not how well we have spoken, but how devoutly we have lived.
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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
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Many follow Jesus to the breaking of bread, but few to the drinking of the cup of passion.
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Two wings lift man above earthly things: simplicity and purity - simplicity of intention, purity of love. Simplicity seeks God, purity finds him.
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Those who travel much on pilgrimage seldom become holy.
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Alas, we more readily believe and speak evil of one another than good; so weak are we.
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How rarely we measure our neighbor by the same standard by which we measure ourselves.
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Do not open your heart to every man, but discuss your affairs with one who is wise and who fears God.
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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
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Habit is overcome by habit.
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When spiritual comfort is sent to you by God, take it humbly and give thanks meekly for it. But know for certain that it is the great goodness of God that sends it to you, and not because you deserve it.
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Faith requires only a sincere life, not intellectual haughtiness or the probing of God's mysteries.
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How wise and happy is he who now strives to be in this life such a one as he wishes to be found at his death.
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Do not ponder so much who is for or against you; rather direct all your care to ensuring that God is with you!
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Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His cross.
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Sources: wikipedia.org, sankthelena.de, arizona.edu, uni-heidelberg.de
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