Thomas a Kempis

Purpose and value are inherent as Thomas a Kempis points out:

Perhaps that was why he still kept the Thomas a Kempis, and other books like it, remembrances of an older faith.

And love, according to Thomas a Kempis, is "the royal road of the holy Cross."

Would the sublime philosophy of Thomas a Kempis, I wondered, have given way under this?

- Shortened form of a motto often ascribed to, or associated with, Thomas a Kempis.

Let us hear Thomas a Kempis again:

A sudden thought came to her of Bernave and his volume of Thomas a Kempis.

Thomas a Kempis.

Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (trans.

Whoever loves much, does much.' (Thomas a Kempis) Prayer We are commanded to pray.

As a young novice, reading Francis de Sales and Thomas a Kempis, I thought I knew.

Like The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, it is considered a spiritual classic in the Christian tradition.

Thomas a Kempis, The following of Christ, translated by Anthony Hoskins (1616)

Her life was written by three persons who knew her personally, and an abridged life was prepared by Thomas a Kempis.

To Easwaran, these verses "distill the essential teachings not just of Thomas a Kempis, but of Christianity itself."

He developed close ties with the monastery of Mount St. Agnes not far from Zwolle, where Thomas a Kempis was then living.

Father Julian, on the other hand, quoted from Thomas a Kempis's Imitation of Christ: 'Be rarely with young people and strangers.'

In similar vein Thomas a Kempis in his famous spiritual classic said, 'Vanity it is to wish to live long and to be careless to live well'.

Thomas a Kempis took up this stirring cry in the Imitation of Christ, adding to the Preacher's call, "except loving God and serving Him alone".

In Sweden a popular songbook with spiritual songs and prayers by Thomas a Kempis named Lilla Kempis.

Have we finally gotten straight the differences between Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Becket, Thomas a Kempis and Thomas More?

The fame of Shakspeare or of Voltaire, of Thomas a Kempis, or of Bonaparte, characterizes those who give it.

After the loss of the mill she strives to follow the renunciatory doctrines of Thomas a Kempis, although she regrets Philip Wakem's tempting art and culture.

On him they found a devotional book, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis and a booklet on Our Lady of Fatima.

In particular, he studied the Devotio Moderna; a mystical approach based on Thomas a Kempis's Imitation of Christ-in particular, imitation of his sufferings.