Thomas a Kempis Doe Quotations

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

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.

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.

He does much who loves much.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.