He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.
Thomas à Kempis0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting.
Thomas à KempisMots clés grace excellence giftedness
It is a hard thing to break through a habit and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles how wilt thou overcome greater ones Withstand thy will at the beginning and unlearn an evil habit lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring ...and what joy to others methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.
Thomas à KempisNever be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas à KempisMy Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear.
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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world).
Thomas à KempisAll that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.
Thomas à KempisGo where thou wilt, seek what thou wilt, and thou shalt not find a higher way above, nor a safer way below, than the way of the holy Cross."
- Thomas A Kempis (The Following of Christ)
Mots clés christianity spirituality
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, sed non inveni, nisi in hoexkens ende boexkens"
"I have sought everywhere for peace, but I have found it not save in a little nook and in a little book.
Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
Thomas à KempisMots clés god
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