18 Best christian books like Contemplative Prayer: Traditional Christian Meditations for Opening to Divine Union by Thomas Keating

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Contemplative Prayer: Traditional Christian Meditations for Opening to Divine Union

By: Thomas Keating

4.31

Format: None pages, Audio CD

"The Cloud of Unknowing" is one of Christianity's enduring mysteries—a meditative state where God i…

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1. The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

By: Stephen King

4.28

Format: 1050 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The seventh and final installment of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticip… read more

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"I don’t like people. They fuck me up"

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"Ending is just another word for goodbye."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls..."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

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2. To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

By: John O'Donohue

3.91

Format: None pages,

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3. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

By: Richard J. Foster

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Richard J. Foster's Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growthis hailed by many as the… read more

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4. The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

By: Scot McKnight

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

"Why Can't I Just Be a Christian?" Parakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings… read more

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5. David: A Man of Passion and Destiny (Great Lives from God's Word, #1)

By: Charles R. Swindoll

3.62

Format: None pages,

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6. Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

By: Richard Rohr

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

This popular and bestselling book of the renowned Franciscan challenges people to move beyond the c… read more

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7. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

By: Donald Miller

3.43

Format: 331 pages,

"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. I used to not like God because God di… read more

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8. Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps

By: Richard Rohr

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Audio

Both individuals and society are drowning in addictions, says dynamic speaker Richard Rohr, O.F.M.,… read more

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9. Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

By: Jim Butcher

4.32

Format: 650 pages,

THE New York TimesBestseller Harry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down -- until a shado… read more

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10. The Chosen

By: Chaim Potok

3.89

Format: 384 pages,

Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, thei… read more

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11. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

By: James K.A. Smith

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our t… read more

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12. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

By: Kate Bowler

3.80

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more

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"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

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13. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

14. Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy

By: Donald Miller

4.20

Format: 251 pages, Audio CD

New York Timesbestselling memoirist Donald Miller takes readers on his year-long journey to learn t… read more

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15. Simplicity: The Freedom of Letting Go

By: Peter Heinegg , Richard Rohr , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of Fr. Rohr's bestselling books, this revised and updated edition explores St. Francis's ancien… read more

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16. The ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps

By: Melissa Orlov

4.62

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

An invaluable resource for couples in which one or both partners have Attention Deficit Hyperactivi… read more

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17. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

 One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instructio… read more

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"How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in th…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political a…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The ligh…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

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18. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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19. 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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20. Monsters

By: Barry Windsor-Smith

4.14

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn’t realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he wa… read more

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21. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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22. Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace

By: John Mark Comer

4.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

We are at war. Not with a foreign government or domestic terrorists or a creepy new artificial inte… read more

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"Anxious to avoid a repeat of history, Edmund Burke laid out the logic behind the American architecture in a letter from 1791: "Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their dispos…"

-John Mark Comer, Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace

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23. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

By: Tyler Staton

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more

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24. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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25. Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God

By: Strahan Coleman

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Move from a  transactional  experience with God to a  transformational  friendship with Him through… read more

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26. The Human Target, Volume 1

By: Tom King

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed art… read more

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27. 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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28. The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

By: Emily P. Freeman

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Nothing gets our attention like an unmade decision: Should I accept the new position? Which schooli… read more

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"Making a living is nothing if you're not also making a life."

-Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

"Just because things change doesn't mean you chose wrong in the first place. Just because you're good at something doesn't mean you have to do it forever."

-Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

"A No Mentor is there to help you feel confident about saying no to the things you really don’t want to do anyway or to help you finally discover your strong, brave yes in the midst of fear."

-Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

"Sometimes it looks like you're going nowhere or that you're headed in the wrong direction. I'm learning that the decision itself is rarely the point. The point is becoming more fully ourselves in the…"

-Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

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29. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

By: Nadia Bolz-Weber

4.21

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more

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"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

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30. The Gospel of Thomas: New Perspectives on Jesus' Message (W/18-Page Supplement)

By: Elaine Pagels

4.02

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Millions of readers have turned to Elaine Pagels for her clear and insightful books about the Gnost… read more

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31. Contemplative Prayer: Traditional Christian Meditations for Opening to Divine Union

By: Thomas Keating

4.31

Format: None pages, Audio CD

"The Cloud of Unknowing" is one of Christianity's enduring mysteries—a meditative state where God i… read more

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15 must-read audiobook books like Contemplative Prayer: Traditional Christian Meditations for Opening to Divine Union by Thomas Keating

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Stephen King

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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Kate Bowler

3.80

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Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Rachel Held Evans

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Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

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4.63

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