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Thomas a Kempis (1380 - July 25, 1471) was a German canon, known for his spiritual writings. He is best known for his work 'The Imitation of Christ,' which has had a profound impact on Christian thought and practice.

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Famous Thomas a Kempis Quotes

“Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.”

Love Self Desire Interest Vision Fortune Casts Ill Stranger Worldly Self Interest Hinder Worldly Desires

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.”

Love Sweet

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“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.”

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“Love makes everything that is heavy light.”

Love Light True Love Heavy

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“Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.”

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“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.”

Thinking Love Feels Trouble Love You All Things Excuse Burden Unconditional Love Impossibility Unconditional Criminal Mind No Excuses

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“He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.”

Love Lovers Gratitude Buddhist Purity Giver Purity And Love

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“Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.”

Thinking Love Hard Done Jesus Hurt Pay Hard Work Lovers Crosses Kingdoms Heavenly

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“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.”

Love Heart May Made Suffering Passion Evil Freedom My Heart Fit Affection Heal Courageous Steady Persevere

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“Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.”

Love Persons Long Suffering Strong Love Is Love You True Love Patient Seeking Faithful Generous Courageous Sincere Joyful Pious Prudent Long Suffering

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“He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.”

Love Highest Flow All Things

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“Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.”

Love Lasts Suffering Friendship Friends Thee Going Away Forsake

Book:Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume

Source: Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume

“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.”

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“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.”

Love Feels Believe May Can Do Labor All Things Regard Strive Burden Arguing Inspirational Love Strife Impossibility Being In Love Loving Someone When You Love Someone

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

Love Light Love Is Burden Great Things

Book:The Imitation of Christ

Source: The Imitation of Christ

“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.”

Ifs Love Perfect Opinion Too Much Wise Ready All Things Profit Be Good God Love

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. Let it not overcome me, my God. Let not flesh and blood conquer me. Let not the world and its brief glory deceive me, nor the devil trip me by his craftiness. Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, and constancy to persevere. Give me the soothing unction of Your spirit rather than all the consolations of the world, and in place of carnal love, infuse into me the love of Your name.”

Source: The Imitation of Christ

About the Author

Born: 1380
Died: July 25, 1471
Known for: Canon
Quotes: 313

Books & Sources

The Imitation of ChristRelated source material

Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single VolumeRelated source material

The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of ChristRelated source material

The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical MusicRelated source material

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Hendrickson Christian Classics Audio LibraryRelated source material

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