18 Best spirituality books like Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks by Diana Butler Bass

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Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

By: Diana Butler Bass

3.82

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle. …

If you liked the spirituality plot in Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks by Diana Butler Bass , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer

By: Rowan Williams

4.30

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

In this simple, beautifully written book Rowan Williams explores four essential components of the C… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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2. Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

By: Anne Lamott

3.70

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"...being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised."

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

"...my disease wanted me dead, but would settle for getting me drunk..."

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

"Sigh: who was it who said that to get into heaven, you needed a letter of recommendation from the poor?"

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

"Trauma, which is stored differently in the brain than memory, seeps out of us as warnings of worse to come."

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

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3. Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day

By: Macrina Wiederkehr

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Author and retreat leader Macrina Wiederkehr opens the monastery door and invites readers to come i… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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4. The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

By: Belden C. Lane

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierc… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

5. Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation

By: Ruth Haley Barton

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

Winner of a 2006 Logos Book Award! Do you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God… read more

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6. Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry

By: Ruth Haley Barton , Leighton Ford

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

"I'm tired of helping others enjoy God.""I just want to enjoy God for myself." With this painful ad… read more

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7. Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

By: Nadia Bolz-Weber

3.97

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Foul-mouthed and heavily tattooed, former standup comic-turned-Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber wea… read more

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8. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

By: Anne Lamott

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

A chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise and very … read more

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9. The Cloister Walk

By: Kathleen Norris

5.00

Format: 144 pages,

Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith b… read more

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10. A Prayer Journal

By: Flannery O'Connor , None

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"I would like to write a beautiful prayer," writes the young Flannery O'Connor in this deeply spiri… read more

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11. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

By: Richard Rohr

4.23

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

In Falling Upward , Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves o… read more

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  • christianity
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  • nonfiction
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  • self help
"The ego hates losing – even to God."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

12. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

By: Rachel Held Evans

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more

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13. Learning to Walk in the Dark

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor's Learnin… read more

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14. Preparing for Christmas: Daily Reflections for Advent

By: Richard Rohr

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

"Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus," Richard Rohr asserts. Advent is a t… read more

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15. Wholehearted Faith

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life con… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

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16. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and Diana Butler Bass's Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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17. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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18. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.63

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more

Similar categories in Cole Arthur Riley's This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us book and Diana Butler Bass's Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Anxiety is not a passive predator."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

Cover of The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand by Andrew Biggio

19. The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand

By: Andrew Biggio

4.70

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

It all started because of a rifle. The Rifle is an inspirational story and hero’s journey of a 28-… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

By: Kate Bowler

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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21. Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

4.40

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can."

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

"I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins"

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

"The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor... Jesus never commanded me to love my religion."

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

"...religion is more than a source of conflict or a calculated way to stay out of hell. Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millen…"

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

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22. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more

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  • theology
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"

-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

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23. Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth

By: Randy Woodley

4.47

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to become rooted in the land? How can we become better relatives to our greatest … read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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  • self help
"To accept our place as simple human beings—beings who share a world with every seen and unseen creature in this vast community of creation—is to embrace our deepest spirituality."

-Randy Woodley, Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth

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24. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned

By: Brian D. McLaren

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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Cover of The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness by Gregory Boyle

25. The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness

By: Gregory Boyle

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Gregory Boyle, the beloved Jesuit priest and author of the inspirational bestsellers Tattoos on the… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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26. Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

By: Diana Butler Bass

3.82

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle. … read more

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  • personal development
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  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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27. Shoot the Moon

By: Isa Arsén

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

How far would you travel for love? Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk fee… read more

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Cover of Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection by Kate Bowler

28. Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

By: Kate Bowler

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflectio… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy by Jim Wallis

29. The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy

By: Jim Wallis

4.20

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

A major new work by the New York Times bestselling author, arguing that the answer to bad religion … read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From by Meredith Miller

30. Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From

By: Meredith Miller

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring parenting book, learn how to create space for your children to get to know God in… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women by Kate Bolick

31. March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

By: Kate Bolick

3.61

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

Four acclaimed female authors—including Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley and In the Dream House au… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I do believe that books seep into us and change us in ways we can’t keep track of."

-Kate Bolick, March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

"We are hardest on the people who mirror the shadowy parts of ourselves. The parts we don’t want to see."

-Kate Bolick, March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

"Perhaps Louisa didn't need to detail what Marmee is so angry about nearly every day of her life. To be a woman is to know anger. To be underestimated, treated as inferior, have one's concerns classif…"

-Kate Bolick, March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

17 best-selling religion books like Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks by Diana Butler Bass

Transform Your Habits

Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer

Rowan Williams

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

Anne Lamott

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day

Macrina Wiederkehr

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

Belden C. Lane

4.21

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18 best-selling audiobook books like The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy by Jim Wallis

Transform Your Habits

Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

Jared Cohen

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

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