On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.36
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowled…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Pride is always a way of not seeing oneself properly, whereas humility is"self-knowledge perfected."-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith."-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"Seeing who we really are--which requires seeing ourselves in relationship to God--is true humility. Humility is taking our place, no matter how small (or big), and fulfilling that place with a heart overflowing with love."-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"Humility is not, therefore, simply a low regard for oneself; rather, it is a proper view of oneself that is low in comparison to God and in recognition of our own fallenness. "Humility is thinking less about yourself, not thinking less of yourself."-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
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1. 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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- literature
- classics
"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
2. Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading (Spiritual Theology #2)
By: Eugene H. Peterson
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eat This Book challenges us to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God's revelation, and to … read more
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- christianity
- christian living
- christian
- nonfiction
3. Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
By: Madeleine L'Engle
4.23
Format: None pages,
In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What doe… read more
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- christianity
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- writing
4. Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition
By: Karen Glass
4.36
Format: 224 pages,
The educators of ancient Greece and Rome gave the world a vision of what education should be. The m… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
- education
5. Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ
By: Andrew David Naselli , J.D. Crowley
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Christian, meet your conscience. What do you do when you disagree with other Christians? How do you… read more
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6. How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
By: Francis A. Schaeffer
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
In dit boek, dat ontstaan is naar aanleiding van de gelijknamige televisie serie, neemt de auteur o… read more
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7. Reading Between the Lines
By: Gene Edward Veith Jr.
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Here is a guidebook for those who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aes… read more
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8. Jayber Crow
By: Wendell Berry
3.95
Format: 253 pages,
From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port… read more
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9. Art & the Bible
By: Francis A. Schaeffer
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts," writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christ… read more
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10. Leisure: The Basis Of Culture
By: Josef Pieper
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leis… read more
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11. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
By: Alan Jacobs
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in Am… read more
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12. Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline
By: AmblesideOnline Education Foundation
4.72
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
The AmblesideOnline Advisory began as a band of mothers who followed God and the vitalizing ideas o… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
13. 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
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- education
"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
14. Everything Sad Is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more
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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
15. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
By: Collin Hansen
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more
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- christianity
- christian
- nonfiction
16. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.50
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity Politics How did the world arrive … read more
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- christian
- christianity
- christian living
- philosophy
- nonfiction
17. Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
By: Justin Whitmel Earley
4.61
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond t… read more
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- christianity
- christian living
- christian
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18. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
By: Jason M. Baxter
4.51
Format: None pages, Audio CD
C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an auth… read more
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- christian
- literature
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- books about books
19. How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
By: James K.A. Smith
4.29
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, a… read more
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- christian
- christianity
- christian living
- philosophy
- nonfiction
20. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
By: Andrew Wilson
4.51
Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition
How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more
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- philosophy
- christian
- nonfiction
21. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
By: Russell D. Moore
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more
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- christianity
- christian living
- christian
- nonfiction
22. 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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- christianity
- christian living
- christian
- 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
23. 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 living
- christian
- nonfiction
24. 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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- philosophy
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- christian
- nonfiction
25. The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality
By: Glen Scrivener
4.50
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Is Christianity history? Or is Christian history the deepest explanation of the modern world?Today … read more
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- philosophy
- christian
- nonfiction
26. Reading for the Love of God
By: Jessica Hooten Wilson
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
What if we viewed reading as not just a personal hobby or a pleasurable indulgence but a spiritual … read more
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- christian
- literature
- christianity
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- education
- books about books
"We read because without books our world shrinks our empathy thins and our liberty wanes. We read for the same reason that people have read and shared poems or stories for thousands of years, because …"-Jessica Hooten Wilson, Reading for the Love of God
27. The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints
By: Jessica Hooten Wilson
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
How do we become better people? Initiatives such as New Year's resolutions, vision boards, thirty-d… read more
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- literature
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- nonfiction
- books about books
28. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.36
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowled… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Karen Swallow Prior's On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books book and Karen Swallow Prior's On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
- classics
- christian
- literature
- christianity
- christian living
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- writing
- education
- books about books
"Pride is always a way of not seeing oneself properly, whereas humility is"self-knowledge perfected."-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith."-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"Seeing who we really are--which requires seeing ourselves in relationship to God--is true humility. Humility is taking our place, no matter how small (or big), and fulfilling that place with a heart …"-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"Humility is not, therefore, simply a low regard for oneself; rather, it is a proper view of oneself that is low in comparison to God and in recognition of our own fallenness. "Humility is thinking le…"-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
29. Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (9marks: Building Healthy Churches)
By: John Onwuchekwa
4.41
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Prayer is as necessary to the Christian as breathing is to the human body--but it often doesn't com… read more
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- christianity
- christian living
- christian
- nonfiction
30. Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
By: Ami Loper
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Many believers in Jesus Christ are living life against the backdrop of disenchantment. They have a … read more
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"A God-given longing must have a God-given fulfillment"-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
"I feel his love most strongly when I am confident in his love."-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
"Be willing to be a place where God can let His dreams for you grow."-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
"Since the moment of the Fall, God has never stopped searching us out."-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
