Thomas a Kempis Quotes

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Each of us can be true for just one day--and then one more and then one more after that--until we've lived a lifetime guided by the Spirit, a lifetime close to the Lord, a lifetime of good deeds and righteousness.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.

Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.