Thomas à Kempis Quotes

Germany, Clergyman
1380 – July, 25, 1471.

Thomas à Kempis, CRSA was a German-Dutch canon regular of the late medieval period and the author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the most popular and best known Christian books on devotion. His name means Thomas "of Kempen", his hometown, and in German he is known as Thomas von Kempen (in Dutch, Thomas van Kempen).

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

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- Wish
- Yourself
- Angry
Wherever you go, there you are.

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- You
- Self
- To Go

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

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- Wise
- Values
- Gift
A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

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- Book
- Alike
- Instruct
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

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- God
- Man
- Peace
Everywhere I have sought peace and not it, except in a corner with a book.

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- Book
- Peace
- Found
Love 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 possible.

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- Love
- Trouble
- Burden
At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Thomas à Kempis

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

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- God
- Desire
- Find
All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

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- Peace
- Desire
- Make