Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

It’s as easy as we choose to make it,” he murmured, pressing his forehead to mine. “At least, this decision is. Nothing’s truly easy, Georgina. Love and life . . . they’re wonderful, but they’re hard. We may mess up again. We have to be strong and decide if we can still go forward, even when things aren’t perfect.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one 'from love.' Love is to rule.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

Love is never wrong.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.