The Imitation of Christ
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The Imitation of Christ

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After the Bible, The Imitation of Christ is the all-time favorite book of Catholics throughout the world. And of the English editions, none can equal this inspiring translation by Bishop Richard Challoner.

This book speaks to the soul of every true Christian, reminding us of the fleeting nature of earthly joy as opposed to the eternity of happiness with God.

The guide of the saints since it first appeared in 1418, it was the sole spiritual reading of St. Therese of Lisieux, who loved it and knew it by heart.Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange asserted that the true mysticism of which it speaks is accessible to all, if they are willing to follow the way of humility, the cross, continual prayer, and docility to the Holy Ghost.

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Information

Publisher
TAN Books
Year
1991
eBook ISBN
9780895559388
Topic
Theology & Religion

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. BOOK I: Useful Admonitions for a Spiritual Life
  8. CHAPTER ONE: Of the Imitation of Christ and the Contempt of All the Vanities of the World
  9. CHAPTER TWO: Of Having an Humble Opinion of Oneself
  10. CHAPTER THREE: Of the Doctrine of Truth
  11. CHAPTER FOUR: Of Prudence in Our Undertakings
  12. CHAPTER FIVE: Of Reading the Holy Scriptures
  13. CHAPTER SIX: Of Inordinate Affections
  14. CHAPTER SEVEN: Of Flying Vain Hope and Pride
  15. CHAPTER EIGHT: Of Shunning Too Much Familiarity
  16. CHAPTER NINE: Of Obedience and Subjection
  17. CHAPTER TEN: Of Avoiding Superfluity of Words
  18. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Of Acquiring Peace and Zeal for Spiritual Progress
  19. CHAPTER TWELVE: Of the Utility of Adversity
  20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Of Resisting Temptations
  21. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Of Avoiding Rash Judgment
  22. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Of Works Done Out of Charity
  23. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Of Bearing the Defects of Others
  24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Of a Monastic Life
  25. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Of the Examples of the Holy Fathers
  26. CHAPTER NINETEEN: Of the Exercises of a Good Religious
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY: Of the Love of Solitude and Silence
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: Of Compunction of Heart
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: Of the Consideration of the Misery of Man
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: Of the Thoughts of Death
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: Of Judgment and the Punishment of Our Sins
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: Of the Fervent Amendment of Our Whole Life
  33. BOOK II: Admonitions Concerning Interior Things
  34. CHAPTER ONE: Of Interior Conversation
  35. CHAPTER TWO: Of Humble Submission
  36. CHAPTER THREE: Of a Good Peaceable Man
  37. CHAPTER FOUR: Of a Pure Mind and Simple Intention
  38. CHAPTER FIVE: Of the Consideration of One’s Self
  39. CHAPTER SIX: Of the Joy of a Good Conscience
  40. CHAPTER SEVEN: Of the Love of Jesus above All Things
  41. CHAPTER EIGHT: Of Familiar Friendship with Jesus
  42. CHAPTER NINE: Of the Want of All Comforts
  43. CHAPTER TEN: Of Gratitude for the Grace of God
  44. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Of the Small Number of the Lovers of the Cross of Jesus
  45. CHAPTER TWELVE: Of the Royal Way of the Holy Cross
  46. BOOK III: Of Internal Consolation
  47. CHAPTER ONE: The Internal Discourse of Christ to a Faithful
  48. CHAPTER TWO: The Truth Speaks within Us, without Noise of Word
  49. CHAPTER THREE: The Words of God Are to Be Heard with Humility, and Many Weigh Them Not
  50. CHAPTER FOUR: We Ought to Walk in Truth and Humility in God’s Presence
  51. CHAPTER FIVE: The Wonderful Effects of Divine Love
  52. CHAPTER SIX: The Proof of a True Lover
  53. CHAPTER SEVEN: Grace Is to be Hid under the Guardianship of Humility
  54. CHAPTER EIGHT: Of Acknowledging Our Unworthiness in the Sight of God
  55. CHAPTER NINE: All Things Are to Be Referred to God as to Our Last End
  56. CHAPTER TEN: It Is Sweet to Serve God, Despising This World
  57. CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Desires of Our Hearts Are to Be Examined and Moderated
  58. CHAPTER TWELVE: Of Learning Patience and of Fighting against Concupiscence
  59. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Obedience of an Humble Subject, after the Example of Jesus Christ
  60. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: On the Consideration of God’s Secret Judgments, Lest We Be Puffed Up with Our Own Good Works
  61. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: How We Are to Be Disposed, and What We Are to Say When We Desire Anything
  62. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: True Comfort Is to Be Sought in God Alone
  63. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: We Ought to Cast All Our Care upon God
  64. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Temporal Miseries Are to Be Borne with Patience, after the Example of Jesus Christ
  65. CHAPTER NINETEEN: On supporting Injuries, and Who Is Proved to Be Truly Patient
  66. CHAPTER TWENTY: The Confession of Our Own Infirmity and the Miseries of This Life
  67. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: We Are to Rest in God above All Goods and Gifts
  68. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: Of the Remembrance of the Manifold Benefits of God
  69. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: Four Things which Bring Much Peace
  70. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: We Should Refrain from Curious Inquiry into the Lives of Others
  71. CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: In What Things Firm Peace of Heart and True Progress Consist
  72. CHAPTER TWENTY SIX: The Eminence of a Free Mind, which Humble Prayer Produces Better than Reading
  73. CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN: Self-Love Chiefly Keeps a Person Back from the Sovereign Good
  74. CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT: Against the Tongues of Detractors
  75. CHAPTER TWENTY NINE: How God Is to Be Invoked and Blessed in the Time of Tribulation
  76. CHAPTER THIRTY: Of Asking the Divine Assistance, and of Confidence of Recovering Grace
  77. CHAPTER THIRTY ONE: Of Disregarding All Things Created, that We May Find the Creator
  78. CHAPTER THIRTY TWO: Denying Ourselves and Renouncing All Cupidity
  79. CHAPTER THIRTY THREE: The Inconstancy of Our Hearts and of Directing Our Final Intentions to God
  80. CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR: He Who Loves God Relishes Him above All Things, and in All Things
  81. CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE: There is No Security from Temptation in This Life
  82. CHAPTER THIRTY SIX: Against the Vain Judgments of Men
  83. CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN: Of a Pure and Full Resignation of Ourselves for Obtaining Freedom of Heart
  84. CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT: The Good Government of Ourselves in Outward Things, and of Having Recourse to God in Dangers
  85. CHAPTER THIRTY NINE: A Man Must Not Be Over-Eager in His Affairs
  86. CHAPTER FORTY: Man Hath No Good of Himself, and Cannot Glory in Anything
  87. CHAPTER FORTY ONE: The Contempt of All Temporal Honor
  88. CHAPTER FORTY TWO: Our Peace Is Not to Be Placed in Men
  89. CHAPTER FORTY THREE: Against Vain and Worldly Learning
  90. CHAPTER FORTY FOUR: Of Not Drawing to Ourselves Exterior Things
  91. CHAPTER FORTY FIVE: Credit Is Not to Be Given to All Men, and That Men Are Prone to Offend in Words
  92. CHAPTER FORTY SIX: Of Having Confidence in God when Words Arise against Us
  93. CHAPTER FORTY SEVEN: All Grievous Things Are to Be Endured for Eternal Life
  94. CHAPTER FORTY EIGHT: The Day of Eternity, and of the Miseries of This Life
  95. CHAPTER FORTY NINE: The Desire of Eternal Life, and What Great Things Are Promised to Those Who Fight
  96. CHAPTER FIFTY: How a Desolate Person Ought to Offer Himself into the Hands of God
  97. CHAPTER FIFTY ONE: We Must Exercise Ourselves in Humble Works When We Cannot Attain to the Highest
  98. CHAPTER FIFTY TWO: A Man Ought Not to Esteem Himself Worthy of Consolation, But Rather Deserving of Stripes
  99. CHAPTER FIFTY THREE: The Grace of God Is Not Communicated to the Worldly-Minded
  100. CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR: The Different Motions of Nature and Grace
  101. CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE: The Corruption of Nature, and of the Efficacy of Divine Grace
  102. CHAPTER FIFTY SIX: We Ought to Deny Ourselves, and Imitate Christ by the Cross
  103. CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN: A Man Should Not Be Too Much Dejected When He Falls into Some Defects
  104. CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT: Of Not Searching into High Matters, Nor into the Secret Judgments of God
  105. CHAPTER FIFTY NINE: All Hope and Confidence Is to Be Fixed in God Alone
  106. BOOK IV: Of the Blessed Sacrament
  107. CHAPTER ONE: With How Great Reverence Christ Is to Be Received
  108. CHAPTER TWO: God’s Great Goodness and Charity Are Shown to Man in This Sacrament
  109. CHAPTER THREE: That It Is Profitable to Communicate Often
  110. CHAPTER FOUR: Many Benefits Are Bestowed on Them Who Communicate Devoutly
  111. CHAPTER FIVE: Of the Dignity of the Sacrament and of the Priestly State
  112. CHAPTER SIX: A Petition Concerning the Exercise Proper before Communion
  113. CHAPTER SEVEN: Of the Examination of One’s Own Conscience, and Of a Resolution of Amendment
  114. CHAPTER EIGHT: Of the Oblation of Christ on the Cross, and of Our Own Resignation
  115. CHAPTER NINE: That We Must Offer Ourselves and All That Is Ours to God, and Pray for All
  116. CHAPTER TEN: That the Holy Communion Is Not Lightly to Be Omitted
  117. CHAPTER ELEVEN: That the Body of Christ and the Holy Scriptures Are Most Necessary to a Faithful Soul
  118. CHAPTER TWELVE: That He Who Is to Communicate Ought to Prepare Himself for Christ with Great Diligence
  119. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: That a Devout Soul Ought to Desire, with Her Whole Heart, to Be United to Christ in This Sacrament
  120. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Of the Ardent Desire of Some Devout Persons to Receive the Body of Christ
  121. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: That the Grace of Devotion Is Obtained by Humility and Self-Denial
  122. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: That We Ought to Lay Open our Necessities to Christ and Crave His Grace
  123. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Of a Fervent Love and Vehement Desire to Receive Christ
  124. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: That a Man Be Not a Curious Searcher into This Sacrament, But an Humble Follower of Christ, Submitting His Sense to Holy Faith
  125. Back Cover
  126. Collection of Classic Artwork
  127. A Brief Life of Christ
  128. Tan Classics
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