Thomas a Kempis Quotes

The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!

God is so good.

The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been good to me. No matter what you're going through, God is always with us. Life is a journey.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

The world is a living image of God.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

Each generation has to create the image of God that works for it.

First of all things, learn to know and love that God to who ye have a double obligation; first, that He made you a man; and next that He made you a little God to sit on his throne and rule over other men.

Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God's character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy.

Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature.

His blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS.

God's glory is His goodness.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.