17 must-read nonfiction books like The Shows Or De Spectaculis by Tertullian

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Similar categories in David McCullough's The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• nonfiction
• history

"One has the feeling that if you could pick it up and turn it over, you would see MADE IN AMERICA stamped on it."

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

"What I wanted-what I needed-was a story wherein the principal characters took on something big and admirable and difficult, and did it right."

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

"Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you. Washington A. Roebling quoted by"

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

"Everywhere about her, lesser men, witless, vulgar, corrupt, men of narrow ambition and the cheapest of values, were prospering as never before, grabbing up power, money, or just about anything else t…"

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

Similar categories in Thomas à Kempis's The Imitation of Christ book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• classics
• christian
• theology
• christianity
• religion
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Tom Clancy's The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan Universe, #5) book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

Similar categories in Sylvia Plath's The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• classics
• nonfiction

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3) book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• christian
• classics

Similar categories in Augustine of Hippo's Confessions book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• classics
• christian
• theology
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Polycarp's The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians (Annotated) book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• classics
• history
• christian
• theology
• christianity
• religion
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Plato's The Trial and Death of Socrates book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• classics
• history

Similar categories in Aristotle's The Categories book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• classics
• history

Similar categories in Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• theology

"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's On the Incarnation book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

Similar categories in Michael W. Holmes's The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

Similar categories in Jonathan Edwards's Charity & Its Fruits book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

Similar categories in Hesiod's Theogony book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1) book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• classics
• religion
• christian

"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)

Similar categories in A.W. Tozer's The Pursuit of God book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

Similar categories in Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• classics
• christian

"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)

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Pilgrim's Regress book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

Similar categories in Plato's The Symposium book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• classics
• history

"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

Similar categories in Anonymous's The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• christian
• theology
• christianity
• religion
• nonfiction

"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jes…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting th…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to …"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me throug…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

Similar categories in Augustine of Hippo's The Trinity book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

Similar categories in John Milton's Paradise Lost book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• philosophy
• classics
• religion

"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

Similar categories in Dane C. Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• christian
• theology
• christianity
• religion
• nonfiction

"Looking inside ourselves, we can anticipate only harshness from heaven. Looking out to Christ, we can anticipate only gentleness."

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"The fall also entrenched in our minds dark thoughts of God, thoughts that are only dug out over multiple exposures to the gospel over many years. Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today i…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"John's point in 13:1 is that in going to the cross, Jesus did not retain something for himself, the way we tend to do when we seek to love others sacrificially. He does not love like us. We love unti…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"It is one thing, as a child, to be told your father loves you. You believe him. You take him at his word. But it is another thing, unutterably more real, to be swept up in his embrace, to feel the wa…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

Similar categories in Douglas Murray's The War on the West book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• religion
• history

"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

Similar categories in Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• nonfiction

"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Similar categories in Malcolm Gladwell's The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• nonfiction
• history

"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Similar categories in Simon Sinek's The Infinite Game book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• philosophy
• nonfiction

"In any game, there are always two currencies required to play - will and resources."

-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game

"And like all infinite games, in the game of life, the goal is not to win, it is to perpetuate the game."

-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game

"The best way to drive performance in an organization is to create an environment in which information can flow freely, mistakes can be highlighted and help can be offered and received."

-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game

"Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning. A worthy rival inspires us to take an attitude of improvement. The former focuses our attention on the outcome, the latter focuses…"

-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game

Similar categories in Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• classics
• history
• christian
• church history
• theology
• christianity
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Clement of Alexandria's Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? book and Tertullian's The Shows Or De Spectaculis

• christianity
• religion
• nonfiction
• theology