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by: Thomas a Kempis
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9781565634367
ISBN: 1565634365
Label: Hendrickson Publishers
Manufacturer: Hendrickson Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: July 30, 2004
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Sales Rank: 36370
Studio: Hendrickson Publishers
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Rating:  - Imitate Christ by living a spiritual life
This wonderful book was written by the priest Thomas a Kempis in the 1400's and is very reminecient of the Apostle Paul's writings by encouraging readers to live a simple spiritual life. It recommends that peace is found in the heart of the humble and that in overcoming the ego you overcome the world. Joy is found in a quiet conscience and you are only happy when you have done what is right. This may also be the original source of the advice to choose the less of two evils. It also warns that pleasure ... Read More
Rating:  - A Catholic book with a Protestant veneer from the publisher
"The Imitation of Christ" will raise you up through humility and, if you let it, conform you more closely to Christ in love and self-denial. This is a nicely-bound edition, and affordable, which is why I purchased it. To my surpise, however, the publisher, Hendrickson Christian Classics, had inserted a fairly blatantly Protestant preface before the actual text of the holy work by Thomas a Kempis. They should know that if it is indeed a classic, the text should be allowed to speak for itself.
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Rating: - Conversations with our Lord & Savior
Any inspirational book, and this is truly a great one, is welcome today, to help us stay focused on our goal, that is our Lord, to help us navigate on these rough seas that are our hectic lives. Thomas A Kempis brings us a lengthy prayer, a conversation between Jesus Christ and His disciple. We can identify and feel humbled because the words of Christ are a succession of His quotes from the New Testament, only put in the context of a conversation. This way we learn real wisdom, biblical wisdom, but also ... Read More
Rating: - Imitation of Christ
I read this book for the first time over 40 years ago. Recently picked it up again and was so impressed that I gave copies to each of my daughters at Easter. You can open to any page and find a message of profound value for your life. It bears repeated readings and reflection on its truths.
Sincerely,
Dianne Luzzi
Rating: - Landmark of Spiritual Growth
Thomas' work is a call to the experience of God in the tradition of medieval spiritual writings. He calls the reader to the disciplines of obedience, humility, and self-denial. If we suffer in this world, we are only to take it as a reminder that our hope and our reward are not here (I.12). We should avert ourselves from the pleasures and conceits of this world to focus on silence and solitude (I.20). Jesus is to be loved more than anything in the world (II.8).
Book three, by far the longest ... Read More
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