The world promises things that are temporal and small, and it is served with great eagerness. I (Christ) promise things that are great and eternal, and the hearts of mortals are slow to stir.
Thomas à KempisTag: heavenly-rewards
Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.
Thomas à KempisTag: faith worry anxiety sovereignty-of-god
Pour un petit avantage, on entreprend une longue route; et pour la vie éternelle, à peine en trouve-t'on qui veuillent faire un pas.
Thomas à KempisOn the day of judgment, it will be demanded of us not what we have read, but what we have done.
Thomas à KempisTag: reading application
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
Thomas à KempisTag: passion materialism desire idolatry
Not every affection which seems good is to be immediately followed. Neither is every opposite affection to be immediately avoided. Sometimes it is expedient to use restraint even in good desires and wishes, lest through importunity you fall into distraction of mind, lest through want of discipline you become a stumbling block to others.
Thomas à KempisTag: discipline impulsiveness
He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perverse and unworthy, but from every creature. He gratefully accepts all from the hand of God and counts it gain.
Thomas à KempisTag: pride indignation
It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.
Thomas à KempisTag: selfishness habits
At the least, bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully. And although thou be very unwilling to hear it, and feel indignation, yet check thyself, and suffer no unadvised word to come forth from thy lips, whereby the little ones may be offended. Soon the storm which hath been raised shall be stilled, and inward grief shall be sweetened by returning grace.
Thomas à KempisTag: frustration mentoring
God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.
Thomas à KempisTag: patience faith sovereignty-of-god
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