For eternal life…
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
No problem free life for anyone…
Why are you upset when things don’t go the way you wish? Who gets everything his way? I don’t. You don’t. No one does. Not one person on earth — not even a king or a pope — has a problem free life.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Nothing is sweeter than love…
Nothing is sweeter than love; nothing higher, nothing stronger, nothing larger, nothing more joyful, nothing fuller, nothing better in heaven or on earth; for love descends from God, and may not finally rest in anything lower than God. One with such love flies high; he runs swiftly, he is merry in God, he is free in soul. He gives all for all, and has all in all, for he rests in one high Goodness above all things, from whom all goodness flows.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
One dies to one’s self…
In the measure that a man dies to himself and grows out of himself, in the same measure does God, who is our Life, enter into him.
–Johannes Tauler (1300–1361)
To discern what….
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
A happiness sought…
A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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