Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.