Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ Quotes
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.
Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.
At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.