"Thomas a Kempis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... school is "The Imitation of Christ," written in Latin, and generally attributed to Thomas a Kempis, a monk who died 1471. It has passed through numberless editions, and still maintains its place among the standard devotional works ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta
... a giant among his fellows that he may allow the life-works of the greatest geniuses of this world to be spurned underfoot? 'Take thou a book into thine hands,' wrote Thomas a Kempis, 'as Simeon the Just took the Child Jesus into his arms to carry him ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan
... French it is claimed that Jean Charlier de Gerson was the author of de Imitatione Christi, usually attributed to Thomas a Kempis. ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... in whom Christian devotion really worshipped humanity, in its simplest and tenderest affections. Finally, if benevolent sympathies were denied to nature, St. Paul found a place for them by attributing them to grace, "which Thomas a Kempis admirably defines as the equivalent of love—gratia sive dilectio—divine inspiration being substituted for human impulse."[36] And the struggle between egoism and altruism was expressed in the doctrines of the Fall and Redemption of mankind.[37] Thus the social passion, ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various
... blasting influence in my zenith for once made a revolution to the nadir." In Edinburgh, which Burns reached in November, 1786, he was introduced by Blacklock to all the literati, and within a fortnight he was writing to a friend: "I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan; and you may expect to see my birthday inscribed among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday and ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various
... of his unfortunate tragedy, he directed his poetical pursuits to a different species of composition. He now finished his translation in verse, of the "Imitation of Jesus Christ," by Thomas a Kempis. This work, perhaps from the singularity of its dramatic author becoming a religious writer, was attended with astonishing success. Yet Fontenelle did not find in this translation the prevailing charm of the original, which consists in that simplicity and naivete which are lost ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... Charlier de Gerson, the great Chancellor of the University of Paris, who was a leading figure in the Church in the earlier part of the fifteenth century. The most probable author, however, especially when the internal evidence is considered, is Thomas Haemmerlein, known also as Thomas a Kempis, from his native town of Kempen, near the Rhine, about forty miles north of Cologne. Haemmerlein, who was born in 1379 or 1380, was a member of the order of the Brothers of Common Life, and spent the last seventy years of his ...
— The Imitation of Christ • Thomas a Kempis |
