On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
10 best books like On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (C.S. Lewis): A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael, Orthodoxy, Contemplative Prayer, Dark Night of the Soul, Phantastes, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society, Heretics, New Seeds of Contemplation, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
| Author | Elisabeth Elliot |
| ISBN | 0800730895 |
A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as ''Amma,'' or ''mother,'' as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. Amy's life of obedience...
This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is the...
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0232526044 |
Thomas Merton's classic study of monastic prayer and contemplation brings a tradition of spirituality alive for the present day. But, as A. M. Allchin points out in his Introduction to this new edition, Contemplative Prayer also shows us the present day in a new perspective, because we see it in the...
| Author | Juan de la Cruz |
| ISBN | 0486426939 |
« Plus les choses divines sont en soi claires et manifestes, plus elles sont naturellement obscures et cachées à l’âme. Il en est ici comme de la lumière naturelle : […] plus on veut fixer le soleil en face, et plus on éblouit la puissance visuelle et on la prive de lumière […]. De même, quand...
C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly.
In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly...
The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521026 |
The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen combines creative case studies of ministry...
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 0486449149 |
G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on "heretics" — those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views — Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall...
New Seeds of Contemplation
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0811217248 |
New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while others have...
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
| Author | Karen Swallow Prior |
| ISBN | 1587433966 |
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires...
The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
| Author | Justin Whitmel Earley |
| ISBN | 0830845607 |
Habits form us more than we form them.
The modern world is a machine of a thousand invisible habits, forming us into anxious, busy, and depressed people. We yearn for the freedom and peace of the gospel, but remain addicted to our technology, shackled by our screens, and exhausted by our routines....
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
| Author | Alister E. McGrath |
| ISBN | 1414339356 |
Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the world of Narnia, and an atheist-turned-Christian thinker.
In...
The Normal Christian Life
| Author | Watchman Nee |
| ISBN | 0875084141 |
Oh. My. God. This is the best book I've ever read--and I absolutely mean that with all the sincerity that I can muster.
This book was so good, in fact, that it made me reevaluate how I rate books. There is absolutely nothing flawed in it. NOTHING. And Nee's message was poignant, timeless, and so...
