The Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis
The fifteenth-century devotional: counsels on the spiritual life, the inner life, consolation, and the sacrament, in short numbered sections. After the Bible the most-read Christian book in history. Austere, humble and quotable on every page.
Read it if…
you want the classic of inward devotion.
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Skip it if…
you dislike medieval asceticism; it is thoroughly medieval.
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Three things you will actually use
- Man proposes, God disposes.
- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be.
- Love to be unknown.
Do this first
Read Book I, chapters one to five.
Our verdict
The classic of inward devotion.
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