Thomas A Kempis

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

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

Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

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.

Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.