Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

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.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
- Thomas Kempis Quote

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

It is much safer to obey than to rule.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

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.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
- Thomas Kempis Quote

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
- Thomas Kempis Quote

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
- Thomas Kempis Quote