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d. 1471 Germany

Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471) was a German medieval Christian monk and author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian books on devotion.

Germany
Theologians

Also known as: The Imitation of Christ, തോമസ് അക്കെമ്പിസ്

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For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are.

We are ready to see others made perfect, and yet we do not amend our own shortcomings.

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Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross.

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I gently bore contradictions and hard words; I received ingratitude for benefits, blasphemies for My miracles, rebukes for My doctrine.

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Make no great account who is for thee or against thee, but mind only the present duty and take care that God be with thee in whatsoever thou doest.

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But they who love Jesus for Jesus’ sake, and not for any consolation of their own, bless Him in all tribulation and anguish of heart as in the highest consolation.

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As iron cast into the fire loseth rust and is made altogether glowing, so the man who turneth himself altogether unto God is freed from slothfulness and changed into a new man.

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How can he abide long time in peace who occupieth himself with other men’s matters, and with things without himself, and meanwhile payeth little or rare heed to the self within?

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What is all flesh in Thy sight? For how shall the clay boast against Him that fashioned it?

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All things pass away and thou equally with them. Look that thou cleave not to them lest thou be taken with them and perish.

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All therefore is vanity, save to love God and to serve Him only. .

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If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow? To-morrow is an uncertain day; and how knowest thou that thou shalt have a to-morrow?

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What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

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Thou dwellest among foes, and art attacked on the right hand and on the left. If therefore thou use not on all sides the shield of patience, thou wilt not remain long unwounded.

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And so little by little the enemy entereth in altogether, because he was not resisted at the beginning.

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Arise, begin this very moment, and say, “Now is the time to do: now is the time to fight, now is the proper time for amendment.”

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One hath said, “As oft as I have gone among men, so oft have I returned less a man.” This is what we often experience when we have been long time in conversation.

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For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.

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Endeavour to be patient in bearing with other men’s faults and infirmities whatsoever they be, for thou thyself also hast many things which have need to be borne with by others.

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In judging of others a man laboreth in vain…How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas à Kempis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.