Thomas A Kempis

Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

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

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

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.

Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.

God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

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.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.