14 must-read nonfiction books like This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness by Sarah Clarkson

Cover of This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness by Sarah Clarkson

This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

By: Sarah Clarkson

4.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

We live in a broken world. Amid the daily realities of sickness and isolation, disappointment and p…

"The real risk to faith is not to wrestle..."

-Sarah Clarkson, This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

"The real risk to faith is not to wrestle..."

-Sarah Clarkson, This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

If you liked the nonfiction plot in This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness by Sarah Clarkson , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Scent of Water

By: Elizabeth Goudge

4.16

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Mary Lindsay met her little niece and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative chi… read more

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  • christian
"Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"She knew there could be no certainty, only faith. Could she find faith?"

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

Cover of Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

2. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

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  • audiobook
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

Cover of The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time by Sally Clarkson

3. The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

By: Sally Clarkson

4.48

Format: 448 pages,

Make your table a place where your family and friends long to be--where they will find rest, renewa… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

4. Surprised by Oxford

By: Carolyn Weber

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more

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5. Different: The Story of an Outside-The-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him

By: Sally Clarkson , Nathan Clarkson

3.19

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nathan was different and Sally knew it. From his early childhood, Nathan was bursting with creativi… read more

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6. Waiting on the Word

By: Malcolm Guite

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Advent is a season of waiting and anticipation in which the waiting itself is strangely rich and fu… read more

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7. The Word in the Wilderness

By: Holly Ordway , Malcolm Guite

4.04

Format: None pages,

For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favou… read more

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8. The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

By: Sally Clarkson , Sarah Clarkson

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

How to make home your family's favorite place to be . . . all year long. Does your home sometimes f… read more

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9. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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10. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

By: Russ Ramsey

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we un… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

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11. Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life

By: Joy Marie Clarkson

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This old world can be exhausting, despairing, and cynical. But you don't have to be. Instead, yo… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living by Alan  Noble

12. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

By: Alan Noble

4.33

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is. For the majority of people, sorro… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer by Joy Marie Clarkson

13. You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer

By: Joy Marie Clarkson

4.10

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In a world dominated by technology and efficiency, we speak of ourselves as we process things, we … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • christian non fiction
Cover of Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning by Sally Clarkson

14. Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

By: Sally Clarkson

4.40

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

As a parent, you want to send your children into the world with healthy minds and vibrant faith. Yo… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
"God entrusted our children into our hands as one of the best works for which we answer to Him. He gave us the stewardship of shaping, investing in, and inspiring for His glory these little human bein…"

-Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

Cover of Giving Your Words: The Lifegiving Power of a Verbal Home for Family Faith Formation by Sally Clarkson

15. Giving Your Words: The Lifegiving Power of a Verbal Home for Family Faith Formation

By: Sally Clarkson

4.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Shaping the hearts, minds, and souls of your children starts with your words. As a parent, your he… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Teatime Discipleship: Sharing Faith One Cup at a Time by Sally Clarkson

16. Teatime Discipleship: Sharing Faith One Cup at a Time

By: Sally Clarkson

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Cultivate Friendship, Feasting, and Fellowship As a mother, friend, and traveler, Sally Clarkson h… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Habits for a Sacred Home: 9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families (Helping Moms Experience Peace & Return to Simple Daily Rhythms from Historic Christians like St. Benedict) by Jennifer Pepito

17. Habits for a Sacred Home: 9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families (Helping Moms Experience Peace & Return to Simple Daily Rhythms from Historic Christians like St. Benedict)

By: Jennifer Pepito

4.14

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Frightened by the chaos in society, many parents fear for their children's futures--and end up rais… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness by Sarah Clarkson

18. This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

By: Sarah Clarkson

4.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

We live in a broken world. Amid the daily realities of sickness and isolation, disappointment and p… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Clarkson's This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness book and Sarah Clarkson's This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
"The real risk to faith is not to wrestle..."

-Sarah Clarkson, This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

Cover of Help, I'm Drowning: Weathering the Storms of Life with Grace and Hope by Sally Clarkson

19. Help, I'm Drowning: Weathering the Storms of Life with Grace and Hope

By: Sally Clarkson

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Life is filled with unexpected storms that take you by surprise. In these storms of life, it's eas… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life by Sarah    Clarkson

20. Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

By: Sarah Clarkson

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for tru… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To know yourself as an agent in the story of the world, one able to bring light and goodness in the midst of suffering, is a profoundly empowering knowledge, one that I believe comes to every woman w…"

-Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

"A woman who reads is a woman who knows she must act: in courage, in creativity, in kindness, and often in defiance of the darkness around her. She understands that life itself is a story and that she…"

-Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

Cover of The Lifegiving Parent: Giving Your Child a Life Worth Living for Christ by Clay Clarkson

21. The Lifegiving Parent: Giving Your Child a Life Worth Living for Christ

By: Clay Clarkson

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the family that brought you The Lifegiving Home and The Lifegiving Table , discover how you ca… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook

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Hannah Coulter

Wendell Berry

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life

Joy Marie Clarkson

4.43

Transform Your Habits

On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

Alan Noble

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

Sally Clarkson

4.40

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Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

Collin Hansen

4.56

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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

Transform Your Habits

How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now

James K.A. Smith

4.29

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David Gibson

4.74

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