6 best-selling nonfiction books like The Young Man's Guide: Counsels, Reflections and Prayers for Catholic Young Men by Francis Xavier Lasance

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The Young Man's Guide: Counsels, Reflections and Prayers for Catholic Young Men

By: Francis Xavier Lasance

4.79

Format: 460 pages, Paperback

Father Lasance's Catholic Girl's Guide , published in 1906, found immediate success among Catholic …

"You will understand some day, what you perhaps fail to perceive now, what an unspeakable advantage it is to consecrate the bright days of youth to God"

-Francis Xavier Lasance, The Young Man's Guide: Counsels, Reflections and Prayers for Catholic Young Men

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Young Man's Guide: Counsels, Reflections and Prayers for Catholic Young Men by Francis Xavier Lasance , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. 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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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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2. Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , David McDuff

4.27

Format: 671 pages, Paperback

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg a… read more

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"Life [had] replaced logic."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

3. Four Texts on Socrates: Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Aristophanes' Clouds

By: Plato , Aristophanes , Thomas G. West , None

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

This book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life … read more

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4. Apology

By: Plato , James J. Helm

4.20

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."

-Plato, Apology

"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."

-Plato, Apology

"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."

-Plato, Apology

"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."

-Plato, Apology

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5. Introduction to the Spiritual Life: Walking the Path of Prayer with Jesus

By: Brant Pitre

4.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A compelling exploration of the biblical foundations, contemplative practices, and spiritual path o… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
"If you find your heart very desolated and afflicted at the loss of property, believe me, you love it too much. The strongest proof of love for a lost object is suffering over its loss... We must neve…"

-Brant Pitre, Introduction to the Spiritual Life: Walking the Path of Prayer with Jesus

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6. Divini Redemptoris: On Atheistic Communism

By: Pope Pius XI

4.44

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

The 1927 Soviet Secret Police’s official published list of victims whom they put to death (over a p… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
"26. Above all other reality there exists one supreme Being: God, the omnipotent Creator of all things, the all-wise and just Judge of all men. This supreme reality, God, is the absolute condemnation …"

-Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris: On Atheistic Communism

"33. . . . Both men and civil society derive their origin from the Creator, Who has mutually ordained them one to the other. Hence neither can be exempted from their correlative obligations, nor deny …"

-Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris: On Atheistic Communism

"30. Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty.…"

-Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris: On Atheistic Communism

"18. A third powerful factor in the diffusion of communism is the conspiracy of silence on the part of a large section of the non-Catholic press of the world. We say conspiracy, because it is impossib…"

-Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris: On Atheistic Communism

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7. Humani Generis: Some False Opinions Which Threaten To Undermine Catholic Doctrine

By: Pope Pius XII

4.38

Format: 23 pages, Paperback

This is Pius XII comments to enlighten people to the various attacks on the Church especially throu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • catholic
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8. The Young Man's Guide: Counsels, Reflections and Prayers for Catholic Young Men

By: Francis Xavier Lasance

4.79

Format: 460 pages, Paperback

Father Lasance's Catholic Girl's Guide , published in 1906, found immediate success among Catholic … read more

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"You will understand some day, what you perhaps fail to perceive now, what an unspeakable advantage it is to consecrate the bright days of youth to God"

-Francis Xavier Lasance, The Young Man's Guide: Counsels, Reflections and Prayers for Catholic Young Men

5 Top religion books like The Young Man's Guide: Counsels, Reflections and Prayers for Catholic Young Men by Francis Xavier Lasance

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Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

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Introduction to the Spiritual Life: Walking the Path of Prayer with Jesus

Brant Pitre

4.63

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Divini Redemptoris: On Atheistic Communism

Pope Pius XI

4.44

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Humani Generis: Some False Opinions Which Threaten To Undermine Catholic Doctrine

Pope Pius XII

4.38

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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

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Poetics

Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

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