Sentences with phrase «spiritual classics»

For example, on his selection for today, November 11, he writes about Thomas a» Kempis, who wrote one of the greatest Christian spiritual classics of all time, The Imitation of Christ.

Sáenz says that Romero's spirituality was nourished by the spirituality of Josemaría Escrivá and that he read The Way, Escrivá's great spiritual classic, frequently.

Pema Chödrön is an American - born Buddhist nun and the author of many spiritual classics, including When Things Fall Apart (Shambhala, 2000), and the new book, Fail, Fail Again, Fail...

[9] Helen Waddell, The Desert Fathers (New York: Vintage Spiritual Classics, 1998), 74; 75 - 76; 77.

Pema Chödrön is an American - born Buddhist nun and the author of many spiritual classics, including When Things Fall Apart (Shambhala, 2000), and the new book, Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better: Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown (Sounds True, September 2015).

These might seem to assume a familiarity with the great spiritual classics; however, there is no need to be disconcerted by this, as the later text navigates one through various of their suggestions and the Rule upon which they are based.

Thomas Merton, in his spiritual classic, Spiritual Direction and Meditation, writes: The spiritual man is one who, «whether he eats or drinks or whatever else he does, does all for the glory of God» Â...

In Catholic circles, the believer may not have been so likely to use lengthy passages in the Bible in this way; perhaps he was content to take a very brief passage, maybe only a verse or so, and meditate upon it, or even to use a passage from the Fathers of the Church or some «spiritual classic.»

We were then living in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Elihu Milder, the rabbi then serving at Tifereth Israel, organized a group to discuss Soloveitchik's spiritual classic, Halakhic Man.

Meditation, focused devotion, transcendental perception — all of these have been vital in the earlier religious communities of the West, but of late the spiritual classics, the books of practical spiritual disciplines, have become the best - kept secret in the education of pastors and laypeople.

The spiritual classics all promote this model of the ascetical life, and to many people, it might seem obvious that it is necessary for the preservation of priestly chastity.

Martin Buber in his spiritual classic I and Thou maintained that where people are drawn together by deep personal relationships to form a true community, there emerges in their midst a spiritual center, which both reflects and continues to foster the unique quality of their relationships.

Dietrich described his faith in «The New World of Christianity,» an essay that expanded into his spiritual classic, Transformation in Christ — written at a time when his life was being threatened by the Nazis.

His previous books include The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and The Abbey: A Voyage of Discovery, a novel advertised as being «in the tradition of the spiritual classics The Shack and The Screwtape Letters.»

One of the best - known Puritans was John Bunyan (1628 - 88), whose Pilgrim's Progress has become a spiritual classic.

It was lost for 200 years, but when it was found in the 19th century it became a spiritual classic.

The book has intense power, and will surely become one of the spiritual classics of our time.

No longer can one read the Church fathers, the monastic tradition, the Anglican divines, indeed most of the spiritual classics of the Christian heritage without making mental reservations: «I must not allow myself to think along these lines; this is too Platonic, too dualistic.»