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Thomas Kempis Quotes

«How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves»
Author: Thomas Kempis | Keywords: balance, neighbor, weigh
«Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.»
Author: Thomas Kempis | About: Simplicity | Keywords: purity, simplicity, soars, temporary
«What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?»
Author: Thomas Kempis | About: Future, Religion | Keywords: anxiety
«What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.»
«Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.»
«[Christ] was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?»
«Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.»
Author: Thomas Kempis | About: Praise | Keywords: cares, tranquility
«Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!'»
«In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose»
Author: Thomas Kempis | Keywords: examining, in vain, judging, vain
«A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.»

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