Tag: Thomas à Kempis

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Thomas à Kempis

He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.

Thomas à Kempis

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Thomas à Kempis

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Thomas à Kempis

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

Thomas à Kempis

How fast passes away the glory of this world.

Thomas à Kempis

(O quam cito transit gloria mundi.

Note: These words are used in the crowning of the pope.)