Quotes by Thomas Kempis

“He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver”

“Its strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.”

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

“A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike.”

“What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?”

“What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.”

“Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.”

“[Christ] was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?”

“A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.”

“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.”

“Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be blessed, but let nothing of mans praises be given to me.”

“Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.”

“Offer yourself to Me, and give yourself wholly for God, and your offering will be acceptable.”

“FIRST keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker towards others. A peaceable man doth more good than a well-learned. A passionate man turneth even good into evil and easily believeth evil; a good, peaceable man converteth all things into good. He who dwelleth in peace is suspicious of none, but he who is discontented and restless is tossed with many suspicions, and is neither quiet himself nor suffereth others to be quiet. He often saith what he ought not to say, and omitteth what it were more expedient for him to do. He considereth to what duties others are bound, and neglecteth those to which he is bound himself. Therefore be zealous first over thyself, and then mayest thou righteously be zealous concerning thy neighbour.”

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.