Thomas a Kempis Quotes

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power

I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.