The Thomas à Kempis fan club includes St. Ignatius, Thomas Merton, Thomas More, and even Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. (She reads a chapter of
The Imitation of Christ every night before sleep.)
Imitation has exerted immense influence on Christian worship, ethics, and church structure, because it gives specific yet broad-minded guidance about the central task of Christian life--learning to live like Jesus. Better to read this book a little here and there, now and then, than to try gobbling it cover to cover.
Imitation is no triumph of orderly thinking, but it's a great monument and incentive to deep living.
--Michael Joseph Gross
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