The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
By: Bruce Marshall
4.33
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Father Smith tries to come to terms with a world that is modernizing too rapidly.
Want to Read"Il Canonico rispose che lui non era affatto d'idee larghe e che, per dire il vero, questo non gli dispiaceva, perché la larghezza d'idee spesso non era altro che superficialità."-Bruce Marshall, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
"Il Canonico rispose che lui non era affatto d'idee larghe e che, per dire il vero, questo non gli dispiaceva, perché la larghezza d'idee spesso non era altro che superficialità."-Bruce Marshall, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
"Non aveva mai capito perché la gente che leggeva Edgar Wallace per gusto e che riteneva che i gatti neri portassero sfortuna dovesse sentirsi offesa dalla dottrina della transustanziazione."-Bruce Marshall, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
"Non aveva mai capito perché la gente che leggeva Edgar Wallace per gusto e che riteneva che i gatti neri portassero sfortuna dovesse sentirsi offesa dalla dottrina della transustanziazione."-Bruce Marshall, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
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4.27
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"Death is no respecter of love."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
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"Honesty is better than any easy comfort."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
"A longing for eternity is built-in to us all"-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
2. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
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3. Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
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4.74
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
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"Evil is a mystery, a scandal and it will always be so."-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"The sign of spiritual progress is not so much never falling as it is being able to lift oneself up quickly after one falls."-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the L…"-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"The Lord can leave us wanting relative to certain things (sometimes judged indispensable in the eyes of the world), but He never leaves us deprived of what is essential: His presence, His peace and a…"-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
4. The Everlasting Man
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4.16
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"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
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"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
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4.11
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3.20
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29. The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
By: Bruce Marshall
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Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Father Smith tries to come to terms with a world that is modernizing too rapidly. read more
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"Il Canonico rispose che lui non era affatto d'idee larghe e che, per dire il vero, questo non gli dispiaceva, perché la larghezza d'idee spesso non era altro che superficialità."-Bruce Marshall, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
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"Erano passati quei tempi, perché gli uomini erano stati così sciocchi da pretendere di effettuare una riforma cominciando dall'esterno anziché dall'interno e da non capire che una dottrina non è nece…"-Bruce Marshall, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
"Credo a tutte quelle 'fandonie' sul battesimo, sulla purezza e sulla verginità della Madonna per la stessa ragione per la quale ci credono tutti gli altri cattolici di questo mondo: che cioè Dio ce l…"-Bruce Marshall, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
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