Frases de Tomás de Kempis
Tomás de Kempis
Fecha de nacimiento: 1380
Fecha de muerte: 25. Julio 1471
Otros nombres: Thomas Kempenský
Tomás de Kempis C.R.S.A. fue un canónigo agustino del siglo XV, autor de la Imitación de Cristo, una de las obras de devoción cristiana más conocida desde entonces, redactada para la vida espiritual de los monjes y frailes, que ha tenido una amplia difusión entre los miembros de la Iglesia católica; algunos importantes autores de espiritualidad cristiana le han dado gran relieve, como Teresa de Lisieux, Bossuet y Juan Bosco, entre otros. Si bien la autoría de esta obra fue ampliamente contestada por autores posteriores, en la actualidad se tiene como histórica su atribución a Tomás de Kempis, para algunos inspirado en las obras del místico flamenco Jan van Ruysbroek . La Iglesia anglicana lo considera santo. Wikipedia
Obras
Frases Tomás de Kempis
— Tomás de Kempis, libro Imitación de Cristo
Imitación de Cristo
— Tomás de Kempis, libro Imitación de Cristo
Imitación de Cristo
— Tomás de Kempis, libro Imitación de Cristo
The Imitation of Christ
— Tomás de Kempis, libro Imitación de Cristo
Imitación de Cristo
— Tomás de Kempis, libro Imitación de Cristo
Imitación de Cristo
— Thomas à Kempis, libro Imitación de Cristo
Book I, ch. 16.
Fuente: The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)
— Thomas à Kempis, libro Imitación de Cristo
Fuente: The Imitation of Christ
„A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.“
— Thomas à Kempis, libro Imitación de Cristo
Fuente: The Imitation of Christ
„At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.“
Certe adveniente die judicii, non quæretur a nobis quid legimus, sed quid fecimus; nec quam bene diximus, sed quam religiose viximus.
— Thomas à Kempis, libro Imitación de Cristo
Book I, ch. 3; this is part of a longer passage:
A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences. Yet learning itself is not to be blamed, or is the simple knowledge of anything whatsoever to be despised, for true learning is good in itself and ordained by God; but a good conscience and a holy life are always to be preferred. But because many are more eager to acquire much learning than to live well, they often go astray, and bear little or no fruit. If only such people were as diligent in the uprooting of vices and the panting of virtues as they are in the debating of problems, there would not be so many evils and scandals among the people, nor such laxity in communities. At the Day of Judgement, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done; not how eloquently we have spoken, but how holily we have lived. Tell me, where are now all those Masters and Doctors whom you knew so well in their lifetime in the full flower of their learning? Other men now sit in their seats, and they are hardly ever called to mind. In their lifetime they seemed of great account, but now no one speaks of them.
[Humili tui cognitio, certior viam est ad Deum, quam profunda scientiae inquisitio. Non est culpanda scientia, aut quelibet simplex rei notitia, quae bona est in se considerata, et a Deo ordinat: sed preferenda est semper bona conscientia, et virtuosa vita. Quia vero plures magis student scire, quam bene vivere: ideo saepe errant, et pene nullum, vel modicum fructum ferunt. O si tanta adhiberent diligentiam ad extirpanda vitia, et virtute inferendas, sicuti ad movenda questiones: non fierent tanta mala et scandala in populo nec tanta dissolutio in cenobiis ! Certe, adveniente die judicii, non quaeretur a nobis: quid legimus, sed quid fecimus: nec quam bene diximus, sed quam religiose viximus. Dic mihi: Ubi sunt modo omnes illi Domini et Magistri, quos bene novisti, dum adhuc viverent et studiis florerent? Iam eorum praebendas alii possident: et nescio, utrum de eis recogitent. In vita sua aliquid esse videbantur, et modo de illis tacetur.]
Book I, ch. 3.
Fuente: The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)
„Wherever you go, there you are.“
— Thomas à Kempis, libro Imitación de Cristo
Fuente: The Imitation of Christ