17 must-read christian books like Litanies of the Heart by Gerry Ken Crete

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Litanies of the Heart

By: Gerry Ken Crete

4.77

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Dr. Gerry Crete takes you on a journey to encounter all the parts of your inner world and allow the…

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1. I and Thou

By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been accl… read more

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  • spirituality
  • psychology
"All real living is meeting."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

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2. Introduction to the Devout Life

By: Francis de Sales

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Written for Christians in every walk of life and for every age, St. Francis De Sales' classic work … read more

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  • christian
  • spirituality
  • catholic
"Be who you are and be that well."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

"We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

"The desire and pursuit of virtue tends to make us virtuous, but the desire and pursuit of honors tends to make us odious and despicable."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

"If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

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3. Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

By: Leonard Sax

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn’t think so… read more

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  • psychology
"Dr. Melvin Connors sums it up nicely in just three words: "culture stretches biology"

-Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

"Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight."

-Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

"Gender is important, gender is complicated and gender is meaningful. Know your child and celebrate the kind of girl or boy your child is becoming."

-Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

"Girls spend slightly more time playing with the doll than with the truck. Boys on the other hand typically spend great deal more time playing with the truck rather than with the doll."

-Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

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4. The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times

By: Michael J. Miller , Jean-Charles Nault

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

The noonday devil is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word "sloth," however, … read more

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  • spirituality
  • catholic
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5. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, cat… read more

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  • christian
  • spirituality
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6. I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

By: None , Jean du Coeur de Jésus d'Elbée

4.65

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

A personal retreat based on St. Therese of Lisieux. A wondrous distillation of the teachings of St.… read more

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  • christian
  • spirituality
  • catholic
"How can we not ask at every turn, 'What is going to happen? How will this turn out?' The main thing is not to consent consciously to anxiety or a troubled mind. The moment you realize you are worryin…"

-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"I assure you, we are bathed in love and mercy. We each have a Father, a Brother, a Friend, a Spouse of our soul, Center and King of our hearts, Redeemer and Savior; bent down over us, over our weakne…"

-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"Then keep your confidence in the infinite mercy of the Savior. Say, like one mother I know who was distressed by the conduct of her children, 'Jesus, You love them too much not to save them.' Thank H…"

-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"I have often thought, during these conferences, about the comment that Maurice Maignan, one of the first companions of Ozanam, made after a retreat: "One thought strikes me. All the means of sanctifi…"

-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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7. Overcoming Sinful Anger

By: Thomas G. Morrow , None , None

4.04

Format: 417 pages,

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  • psychology
  • catholic
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8. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • christian
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9. In the School of the Holy Spirit

By: Jacques Philippe , None

4.64

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A renowned spiritual director unveils the Master of the interior life. In the prayer lives of many … read more

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  • christian
  • spirituality
  • catholic
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10. Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

By: Thérèse of Lisieux , John Clarke

4.42

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

This book, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual cl… read more

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  • christian
  • spirituality
  • catholic
"Love lives only by sacrifice"

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"I have at last found my vocation; it is love!"

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender."

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"It is for us to console our Lord, and not for Him to console us."

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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11. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more

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  • psychology
"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

12. The Privilege of Being a Woman

By: Alice von Hildebrand

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Women historically have been denigrated as lower than men or viewed as privileged. Dr. Alice von Hi… read more

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13. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

By: Gabor Maté

4.49

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more

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  • psychology
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

14. Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Initially written for a Jewish friend, Life of the Beloved has become Henri Nouwen's greatest legac… read more

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15. Elizabeth of the Trinity THE COMPLETE WORKS, I have found GOD, Vol 1

By: Conrad De Meester , None , None

3.31

Format: None pages,

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16. Theology of the Body for Beginners: A Basic Introduction to Pope John Paul II's Sexual Revolution

By: Christopher West

3.98

Format: None pages,

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17. Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior

By: None , None

3.98

Format: None pages,

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18. Time for God

By: Jacques Philippe

4.60

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Are you too busy to pray? What if you could actually gain time and be more productive by praying? W… read more

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  • christian
  • spirituality
  • catholic
"A person who does not pray habitually, no matter how believing or pious he may be, will not achieve full spiritual growth. Neither will he acquire peace of soul because he will always experience exce…"

-Jacques Philippe, Time for God

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19. The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

By: Carrie Gress

4.20

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Feminism Doesn’t Empower Women. It Erases Them. The bestselling author of Theology of Home, Carrie … read more

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  • christian
  • catholic
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20. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more

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  • christian
  • psychology
"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

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21. The Four Loves

By: C.S. Lewis

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more

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  • christian
  • spirituality
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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22. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more

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  • psychology
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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23. The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory

By: Abigail Rine Favale

4.59

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderst… read more

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  • christian
  • catholic
Cover of The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity by Carrie Gress

24. The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity

By: Carrie Gress

4.37

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The Demonic Influence on Women Today In the late ’60s, a small group of elite American women convin… read more

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  • christian
  • spirituality
  • catholic
"Parents are the bridge between a child and God; they are the first icon of his unconditional love."

-Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity

"We live under ghe impression that we are freethinkers; the irony is that thinkers are generally not free when they think just like everyone else."

-Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity

"Anglican convert Blessed John Henry Cardinal Neumann described Mary as our "happier world". By leading her children to her Son, the Blessed Mother helps "them to regain that which has been lost throu…"

-Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity

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25. From Christendom to Apostolic Mission: Pastoral Strategies for an Apostolic Age

By: University of Mary

4.63

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Every human society possesses a moral and spiritual imaginative vision, a set of assumptions and wa… read more

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  • christian
  • spirituality
  • catholic
Cover of Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father’s Love by Thomas Acklin

26. Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father’s Love

By: Thomas Acklin

4.71

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Prayer is at the heart of the Christian life. Given that we are weak and even sinful human beings, … read more

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  • spirituality
  • catholic
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27. Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly

By: Gregory Pine

4.46

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Decisions, decisions … life presents us with so many, big and small. How can we confidently make ch… read more

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  • psychology
  • christian
  • spirituality
  • catholic
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28. Chastity

By: Erik Varden

4.63

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The word 'chastity', at first sight, may seem intimidating, something to be dismissed out of hand. … read more

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  • spirituality
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29. Litanies of the Heart

By: Gerry Ken Crete

4.77

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Dr. Gerry Crete takes you on a journey to encounter all the parts of your inner world and allow the… read more

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  • psychology
  • christian
  • spirituality
  • catholic
Cover of On the Study of Sacred Scripture: Encyclical Letter Providentissimus Deus by Pope Leo XIII

30. On the Study of Sacred Scripture: Encyclical Letter Providentissimus Deus

By: Pope Leo XIII

4.66

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A 18 de Novembro de 1893, o Papa Leão XIII, muito atento aos problemas intelectuais, publicava a su… read more

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  • christian
  • catholic
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31. Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person

By: Luke Burgis

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"Beautifully written, compellingly personal, and a treasure to read." —Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput… read more

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  • psychology
  • christian
  • spirituality
  • catholic
"Each person has a unique and unrepeatable vocation. If it is not discovered, embraced, and lived, it is lost to the world forever."

-Luke Burgis, Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person

"The life of each person can’t be understood in a snapshot, a resume, or a social media profile. We have to enter fully into the stories of each individual if we hope to know and love them as God does…"

-Luke Burgis, Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person

16 Best spirituality books like Litanies of the Heart by Gerry Ken Crete

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I and Thou

Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Introduction to the Devout Life

Francis de Sales

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times

Michael J. Miller , Jean-Charles Nault

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

Henri J.M. Nouwen

4.09

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It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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Bruce D. Perry

4.44

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