Quote: Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: 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 Kempis]
Quote: Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Man proposes, but God disposes. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Love makes everything that is heavy light. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. [Thomas Kempis]
Quote: Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are. [Thomas Kempis]