(c.1379\u2013August 8, 1471), was an Augustinian friar at Zwolle in the Netherlands, who wrote the devotional, On the Imitation of Christ,<\/i> 1420. This work has greatly influenced western writers, including: Martin Luther, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot and Lamartine. In Imitation of Christ,<\/i> Thomas \u00e0 Kempis wrote:<\/p>\n
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.18<\/p>\n
Man proposes, but God disposes.19<\/p>\n
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, longsuffering, manly and never seeking her own; for wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.20<\/p>\n
Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller or better in heaven or in earth; for love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(c.1379\u2013August 8, 1471), was an Augustinian friar at Zwolle in the Netherlands, who wrote the devotional, On the Imitation of Christ, 1420. This work has greatly influenced western writers, including: Martin Luther, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot and Lamartine. In Imitation of Christ, Thomas \u00e0 Kempis wrote: Be not angry that you cannot make others as … Continue reading “KEMPIS,
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