01c. 1425 ADWe must not suppose ourselves always to have conquered a temptation when we have fled from it.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
02c. 1425 ADWe must sometimes cease to adhere to our own opinion for the sake of peace.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
03c. 1425 ADWe should be sparing in our intimacies; because it so very often happens that the more perfectly men are understood, the less they are esteemed.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
04c. 1425 ADWe take a pleasure in being severe upon others, but cannot endure to hear of our own faults.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
05c. 1425 ADWe will have others severely corrected, and will not be corrected ourselves.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
06c. 1425 ADWhat are words but empty sounds, that break and scatter in the air, and make no real impression?Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
07c. 1425 ADWhat is more at ease, more abstracted from the world, than a true single-hearted honesty?Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
08c. 1425 ADWhen you find yourselves tempted, be sure to ask advice; and when you see another so, deal with him gently.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
09c. 1425 ADWhensoever a man desireth anything inordinately, he is presently disquieted in himself.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
11c. 1425 ADWho hath a greater combat than he that laboureth to overcome himself?Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
12c. 1425 ADWhy should thy satisfaction be placed upon a thing which makes thee not one whit the better or the worse?Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
13c. 1425 ADWithout the way there is no going; without the truth, no knowing; without the life, no living.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
14c. 1425 ADWould we but quit ourselves like men, and resolutely stand our ground, we should not fail of succours from above.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
16c. 1425 ADYour own words and actions are the only things you will be called to account for.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
18c. 1425 ADOur dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolation.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
19c. 1425 ADIn judging of others a man laboreth in vain, often erreth, and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
20c. 1425 ADNo man can ever want this mortification of his vanity, that what he knows is but a very little, in comparison of what he still continues ignorant of. Consider this, and, instead of boasting thy knowledge of a few things, confess and be out of countenance for the many more which thou dost not understand.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
21c. 1425 ADEndeavor to be patient in bearing the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort soever they be; for thou thyself also hast many failings which must be borne with by others.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
22c. 1425 ADLove feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possibleThomas À Kempis / quote ↗
23c. 1425 ADBe not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
24c. 1425 ADJesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.Thomas À Kempis / quote ↗
