Thomas à Kempis: Quotes about love

Thomas à Kempis was German canon regular. Explore interesting quotes on love.

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“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”

Thomas à Kempis book The Imitation of Christ

Source: The Imitation of Christ

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible”

Thomas à Kempis

“Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly and never seeking her own; for whosoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.”

Thomas à Kempis book The Imitation of Christ

Book III, ch. 5.
The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)

“If thou knewest the whole Bible by heart, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what would it profit thee without the love of God and without grace?”

Thomas à Kempis

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 365.