Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology
By: C.S. Lewis
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning – never by being rude about your opponent…
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1. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
By: Timothy J. Keller , Katherine Leary Alsdorf
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller shows how God calls on eac… read more
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"It (idolatry) means turning a good thing into an ultimate thing."-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
"Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, can coexist only in God."-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
"Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck."-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
"The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain."-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
2. Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
By: George MacDonald
4.49
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Of this passage in the life of our Lord, the account given by St Mark is the more complete. But it … read more
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"All that is not God is death."-George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
"Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel."-George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
"To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God."-George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
"The heavens and the earth are around us that it may be possible for us to speak of the unseen by the seen, for the outermost husk of creation has correspondence with the deepest things of the Creator…"-George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
3. Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
By: Michael Ward
4.33
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently dis… read more
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4. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
5. The Case for Christ
By: Lee Strobel
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads, Lee Strobe… read more
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- christianity
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6. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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- christian
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- christianity
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- nonfiction
7. Phantastes
By: George MacDonald
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. L… read more
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8. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Unknown , Christopher Tolkien
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Sir Gawain and the Green Knightand Pearlare two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. S… read more
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9. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
By: Timothy J. Keller
4.00
Format: None pages,
. The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller l… read more
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10. The Knowledge of the Holy
By: A.W. Tozer
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The Knowledge of the Holyby popular evangelical author and Christian mystic A.W. Tozer illuminates … read more
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11. The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
By: George MacDonald , Arthur Hughes
4.02
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the cas… read more
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- christian
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
"But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."…"-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
12. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
13. Planet of the Apes
By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more
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14. A Confession
By: Leo Tolstoy
4.10
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in proc… read more
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- christianity
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"I united myself with my forefathers: the father, mother, and grandparents I loved. They and all my predecessors believed and lived, and they produced me."-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him"-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature…"-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
15. ESV Study Bible
By: Anonymous , Wayne Grudem , Lane T. Dennis
3.00
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
The ESV Study Biblewas designed to help you understand the Bible in a deeper way. Created by a dive… read more
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16. Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality
By: Nancy R. Pearcey
4.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Are transgender people discovering their authentic self? Is the hookup culture really liberating? D… read more
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- theology
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
17. 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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- theology
18. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
By: John Mark Comer
4.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more
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19. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- theology
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
20. 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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- theology
- christianity
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- nonfiction
21. The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one vo… read more
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22. The Magician’s Daughter
By: H.G. Parry
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A young woman raised on an isolated island by a magician discovers things aren’t as they seem and m… read more
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"It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?" "Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic."-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees."-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"At this time of year, the path was like a dark green cathedral, dappled with sun, and Biddy told the other two about the words the Japanese had for different kinds of light: Light through leaves was …"-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"She was breaking apart. Her heart was unfurling like a flower awakening to sunlight, her ribs expanding, her head splitting open like that of Zeus when Athena sprang full-formed. She couldn't scream …"-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
23. Suffering is Never for Nothing
By: Elisabeth Elliot
4.68
Format: 108 pages, Hardcover
Hard times come for all in life, with no real explanation. When we walk through suffering, it has t… read more
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"Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action."-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
"The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being syn…"-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
"It’s He who was the Word before the foundation of the world, suffering as a lamb slain. And He has a lot up His sleeve that you and I haven’t the slightest idea about now. He’s told us enough so that…"-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
"We are not adrift in chaos. To me that is the most fortifying, the most stabilizing, the most peace-giving thing that I know about anything in the universe. Every time that things have seemingly fall…"-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
24. How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People
By: Pete Greig
4.59
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Everyone prays. But no one finds it easy. We all need a little help. Pete Greig has been teaching o… read more
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25. Mere Christendom
By: Douglas Wilson
4.28
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Evangelical elites tell us that Christian nationalism and theocracy are grave dangers to our Christ… read more
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"Anyone who conforms to the Westminster Confession of Faith is a Christian Nationalist."-Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom
26. The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth o… read more
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- classics
"Glory dwelt in that city of Gondolin of the Seven Names, and its ruin was the most dread of all the sacks of cities upon the face of Earth."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
"There long he sojourned alone and roamed about the shore or fared over the rocks at the ebb, marvelling at the pools and the great weeds, the dripping caverns and the strange sea-fowl that he saw and…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
"If I chose to send thee, Tour son of Hour, them believe not that thy one sword is not worth the sending. For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marveling that…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
27. George MacDonald
By: George MacDonald
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDo… read more
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- christian
- theology
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"The one principle of hell is – “I am my own"-George MacDonald, George MacDonald
28. Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord
By: Rebecca McLaughlin
4.39
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
If the women who followed Jesus could tell you what he was like, what would they say? Jesus’s tr… read more
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29. Why Trey Let Me Get Away (Famously in Love, #1)
By: Kortney Keisel
4.03
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
Second chances are relationship Hail Marys. I'll either win Whitney's love or go home brokenhearted… read more
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30. Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology
By: C.S. Lewis
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning – never by being rude about your opponent… read more
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31. Spurgeon on the Priority of Prayer (Spurgeon Speaks)
By: Jason K. Allen
4.50
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
When Spurgeon speaks, you’d be wise to listen. The great London preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon ha… read more
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