Thomas a Kempis Quotes

A good conscience is a continual feast.

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

My conscience is clean.

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye." Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.

Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.