16 Best christian books like The Minister's Restoration by George MacDonald

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The Minister's Restoration

By: George MacDonald

4.26

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

The Minister's Restoration (MacDonald / Phillips series) [paperback] MacDonald, George,Phillips, Mi…

"He could not pray without words, and not a word would come!"

-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration

"The praise of men, and the love of that praise, had now restored him to his own good graces."

-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration

"And now, in love with himself, and so shut out from the salvation of love to another, he was specially in danger of falling in love with any woman’s admiration."

-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration

"It is strange, but so it is, that many a man never sees himself until he becomes aware of the eyes of other men fixed upon him; they seeing him, and he knowing that they see him, then first, even to himself, will he confess what he may have long all but known."

-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration

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1. Leaf by Niggle

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.26

Format: 22 pages, ebook

Leaf by Niggle is a short story about a painter who is working on a picture leaf by leaf. Niggle, t… read more

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  • christian
  • classics
  • fiction
"Feeria è meglio della sensazione che non ci sia niente al di là dell'usato mondo di tutti i giorni"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle

"He was going to learn about sheep, and the high pasturages, and look at a wider sky, and walk ever further and further towards the Mountains, always uphill. Beyond that I cannot guess what became of …"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle

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2. 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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  • adult fiction
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
"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

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3. 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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  • adult fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"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

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4. The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2)

By: Madeleine L'Engle

4.16

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more abou… read more

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"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."

-Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2)

"One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the what ifs come to me."

-Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2)

"I tell a friend that I hope for Mother's death, and he is shocked; he sees it as a failure in my love toward her. Perhaps it is. I don't know."

-Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2)

"He is : frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to fa…"

-Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2)

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5. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

By: John Bunyan

4.22

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners is one of the great classic autobiographies, part of the Ch… read more

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  • christian
  • classics
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6. The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults.… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • classics
  • fiction
"My sister Susan,"

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

"Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

"But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

". . .[W]e have all been blind. We are only beginning to see. . . ."

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

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7. The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

By: Maria Augusta von Trapp

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and … read more

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  • classics
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8. Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

By: Francis Chan , Danae Yankoski

4.12

Format: None pages,

In the name of the Father, the Son, and ... the Holy Spirit. We pray in the name of all three, but … read more

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  • christian
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9. The Weight of Glory

By: C.S. Lewis

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century,… read more

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  • christian
  • classics
"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Have courage, dear heart, for there is nothing to be afraid of and never has been."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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10. Lorna Doone

By: R.D. Blackmore , Michelle Allen

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1869, Lorna Dooneis the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the rel… read more

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  • 19th century
  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
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11. God's Smuggler

By: John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill , Brother Andrew

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself underco… read more

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  • christian
Cover of Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8) by P.G. Wodehouse

12. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

13. Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Pam Morris

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughterscentres on the story of yout… read more

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14. The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a lar… read more

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15. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • classics
  • fiction
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

16. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

By: C.S. Lewis

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more

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17. The Pursuit of God

By: A.W. Tozer

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit … read more

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18. The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

By: C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes

3.96

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch. NARNIA...where owls are wise, where… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • classics
  • fiction
"Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

19. L'Abri

By: Francis A. Schaeffer , Edith Schaeffer , None

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

In 1955 an American family moved into a chalet on the side of a steep Swiss alp. They did not know … read more

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20. Summer Lightning

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir--a tell-all that could destroy po… read more

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21. 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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  • christian
"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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22. Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.11

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

The second Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Have His Carcase. Harr… read more

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  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
"I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"In the mood of relaxation and confidence that follows on being parboiled, it was easy enough to pump Mrs Weldon. A little diplomacy was needed, so as not to betray the ulterior object of the inquiry,…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

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23. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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  • fiction
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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24. The Problem of Pain

By: C.S. Lewis

4.13

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more

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  • christian
  • classics
"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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25. The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

By: Larry Loftis

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Florida Book Awards Gold Medalist New York Times bestselling author and … read more

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  • historical
  • christian
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26. The Berlin Letters

By: Katherine Reay

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childho… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
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27. Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years

By: Ellen Vaughn

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a remote Amazonian indigenous pe… read more

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  • christian
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28. The Minister's Restoration

By: George MacDonald

4.26

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

The Minister's Restoration (MacDonald / Phillips series) [paperback] MacDonald, George,Phillips, Mi… read more

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  • 19th century
  • historical
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"He could not pray without words, and not a word would come!"

-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration

"The praise of men, and the love of that praise, had now restored him to his own good graces."

-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration

"And now, in love with himself, and so shut out from the salvation of love to another, he was specially in danger of falling in love with any woman’s admiration."

-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration

"It is strange, but so it is, that many a man never sees himself until he becomes aware of the eyes of other men fixed upon him; they seeing him, and he knowing that they see him, then first, even to …"

-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration

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29. 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
"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

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30. Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)

By: Sigrid Undset

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—th… read more

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  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
"God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed."

-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)

"And she felt joy bubbling up in her heart—that the world was so full of sunshine and beauty and gladness. And she had put herself outside it, banished herself to her corner. For all that, it was a go…"

-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)

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31. A Rough Shaking

By: GEROGE MACDONALD

4.31

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

It was a day when everything around seemed almost everything does, now and then, come nearly right… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • scotland

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