Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

God can show you just what you need to give, even if you don't know exactly why you're giving it. That's why we should always seek God and prepare to give Him our very best.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

I didn’t come here to seek a power or to get a chairmanship. I wanted to do what I think my Lord wants me to do.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.