The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life - The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life by Brother Lawrence.
Excerpt: This book consists of notes of several conversations had with, and letters written by Nicholas Herman, of Lorraine, a lowly and unlearned man, who, after having been a footman and soldier, was admitted a Lay Brother among the barefooted Carmelites at Paris in 1666, and was afterwards known as "Brother Lawrence."
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The Cell of Self-Knowledge The Cell of Self-Knowledge - The Cell of Self-Knowledge by Henry Pepwell
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FROM the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the fifteenth century may be called the golden age of mystical literature in the
vernacular
The Church and the Empire The Church and the Empire - The late appearance of this volume of the series needs some explanation. Portions of the book have been written at intervals; but
it is only the enforced idleness of a long convalescence after illness which has given me the requisite leisure to finish it
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Part 2/3 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
by Jules Verne
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"The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us," admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel
Acres of Diamonds Acres of Diamonds
our every-day opportunities
by Russell H. Conwell
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Every man has the opportunity to make more of himself than he did in his previous environment, with his own skill, with his own energy, and with his own friends
Sermons Preached at Brighton Sermons Preached at Brighton - “Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”—St. James iii
Miscellaneous Pieces Miscellaneous Pieces
by John Bunyan
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How a young or shaken Christian should demean himself under the weighty thoughts of the Doctrine of the Trinity or Plurality of Persons in the eternal Godhead.
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The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons - The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons by Henry Steel Olcott
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The thoughtful student, in scanning the religious history of the race, has one fact continually forced upon his notice, viz
The Practice &Science of Drawing The Practice &Science of Drawing -
The best things in an artist's work are so much a matter of intuition, that there is much to be said for the point of view that would altogether discourage intellectual inquiry into artistic phenomena on the part of the artist. Intuitions are shy things and apt to disappear if looked into too closely