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A “classic” refers to a book which endures with such excellence that people read and admire it long after the author is dead. Classics increase in popularity hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years past its publication date. The holy Scriptures outpace all books as the classic of classics. Some of its authors lived over 4,000 years ago, yet it still stands atop the bestseller list year after year and has been translated into are more languages than any volume in world history.

The Christian classics that rise above the rest include Confessions by Augustine, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, and The Institutes by John Calvin. Another book equal in substance and readership is The Imitation of Christ by Thomas á Kempis, a man devoted to piety and the emulation of Lord Jesus Christ.