Download or read book Divine Friendship written by Trevor Hudson and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us spend our lives searching for something to satisfy our deepest longings. Yet we will never find complete satisfaction in human relationships, possessions, or personal power. As Saint Augustine wrote, "Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you [God]." Lent offers us the opportunity to deepen our friendship with God. The idea of being friends with God may intimidate some, but the authors of this book provide practical tips for developing a closer relationship with God. Set aside at least 15 to 20 minutes each day to spend with God, the introduction suggests. Read the scripture texts and reflections, and pay attention to what they evoke in you. Then talk to God about your thoughts and feelings just as you would to your best friend. During Lent Jesus invites us to spend time with him and to renew our friendship with him. This encouraging book reminds us that we are beloved children of a God who deeply desires friendship with us. The meditations help us realize that through friendship with God, we will satisfy our hearts' yearnings.
Download or read book In Divine Friendship written by Swami Kriyananda and published by Crystal Clarity Publishers. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary book of letters, written by Swami Kriyananda in response to questions and inquiries from his friends, students and critics over a thirty-year period, responds to practically any concern a spiritual seeker might have—how to meditate deeply; strengthening one's faith; developing divine attunement; accelerating spiritual progress; overcoming negative self-judgments; responding to illness, the right attitude toward money and profit, becoming a good leader, attracting a mate, sexuality, raising children—any many, many other subjects.
Download or read book Charity as Divine and Human Friendship written by Rev. Fr. Matthew Kauth and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Divine Friendship Beyond Time Paramahansa Yogananda and Mary Lou Edwards written by Randy Bundy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a woman from Atlanta, Georgia who unexpectedly meets Paramahansa Yogananda in 1945. Her story includes miraculous events and the prophecy by Paramahansa Yogananda of a temple to be built in Atlanta in her lifetime that will serve his work. All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Atlanta Center of Self-Realization Fellowship. Updated as of May 2011.
Download or read book Biblical Insights into Divine Friendships written by Dr.Samuel Shamaun and published by Samuel Shamaun . This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Biblical Insights into Divine Friendships" offers a compelling exploration of the profound friendships depicted throughout the Bible and their relevance to our lives today. Delving into key passages, characters, and themes, this book illuminates the transformative power of genuine companionship rooted in faith and love. From the enduring bond between David and Jonathan to the intimate reflections of the Song of Solomon, readers are invited to journey through the pages of Scripture and discover timeless truths about the nature of divine friendship. With practical applications and inspirational insights, this book serves as a guide for cultivating deeper, more meaningful relationships that reflect the love and grace of God. Whether you're seeking to strengthen existing friendships or forge new connections, "Biblical Insights into Divine Friendships" offers invaluable wisdom and encouragement for building authentic relationships that honor God and enrich our lives.
Download or read book The Friendship Project written by Michele Faehnle and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet are busy wives, mothers, and volunteers. They are also friends, Catholic speakers, and the dedicated coauthors of Divine Mercy for Moms, which continues to inspire women to come together to pray, study, and live in friendship around the Divine Mercy devotion. In the midst of their active lives, Faehnle and Jaminet found themselves missing their old friends and searching for new ones. They also realized that they needed to continually work to develop deep, meaningful relationships that would allow them to be themselves, to care for others and be cared for, and to deepen their Catholic faith. In The Friendship Project, Faehnle and Jaminet explore the cardinal and theological virtues with an eye toward friendship. Focusing on faith, hope, love, prudence, gratitude, loyalty, generosity, and prayerfulness, they help us answer questions such as, “What does it mean to be women of hope, and how does that change our lives and make us more compassionate friends during difficult times?” and “How does prayerfulness teach us how to listen to and talk with both God and our friends, which helps us reach out to those we love?” Faehnle and Jaminet answer these questions and more by employing Church teaching and telling us stories of their own friendships and those from the lives of saints and biblical women—including the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Elizabeth, St. Thérèse of Lisieux and her sister Servant of God Léonie, and Sts. Perpetua and Felicity. Not only will you be drawn closer to friends both new and old but you’ll also be reminded how these friendships—and the virtues you practice to nurture them—draw you closer to God. Prayers, discussion questions, and a study guide make this a perfect resource for women’s groups
Download or read book Days of Deepening Friendship written by Vinita Hampton Wright and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be your true self—and get ready for a dynamic friendship with the Divine. It’s time for women of faith to quit apologizing—for who they are or who they’ve been, for what they feel and know, and for their powerful ability to connect with spiritual reality. When a woman is free to be herself and to express to God—without fear—her loves, dreams, pains, and passions, she can embark upon a friendship that is stunning in its wisdom and delightful in its daily unfolding. Using Scripture, meditations, stories, and written exercises, Days of Deepening Friendship encourages women to radically rethink their approach to friendship with God and to explore the deeper regions of this very special relationship. Throughout forty brief chapters, author and spirituality-workshop leader Vinita Hampton Wright taps the proven wisdom of Ignatian spirituality by employing prayer, imagination, action, and reflection, making the book an ideal spiritual workshop for women. Days of Deepening Friendship will free any woman to fling wide open the door to the Divine and become friends with the God who has loved her all along for who she really is.
Download or read book Awaken to Superconsciousness written by Donald J. Walters and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK:Awaken to Superconsciousness provides easy, gentle guidance to help beginners quickly feel and benefits of meditation and allows long-time practitioners to break through blocks and deepen their experience. Drawing upon decades of experi
Download or read book The Divine Dance written by Richard Rohr and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divine Dance has become a classic for fans of Richard Rohr and an important book on Christian mysticism, it provides a fresh perspective for anyone studying or teaching the trinity. The Trinity is the central doctrine of Christianity, but it is still widely considered a mystery we won't ever fully understand. Should we still try to understand it, even so? If we could, how would it transform our relationship with God? In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, internationally recognised teacher Richard Rohr explores the nature of God and the paradoxical idea of the Holy Trinity as both three and one. With clear, surefooted wisdom, he encourages us to build on the early Christian understanding of the relationship between Father, Son and Spirit as a flow and dance - a Divine Dance - that we are invited to join in. An engaging, accessible look at the nature of God, The Divine Dance will challenge the way you think about the Trinity and give you a much fuller understanding of the triune relationship that is at the heart of Christian doctrine. It will leave you with a faith that is renewed and strengthened, and show you how you can engage more deeply in your relationship with God and the world through the Trinity.
Download or read book Divine and Human Providence written by Ignacio Silva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an original perspective on divine providence by examining philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives on human providence as exhibited in virtuous human behaviours. Divine providence is one of the most pressing issues in analytic theology and philosophy of religion today, especially in view of scientific evidence for a natural world full of indeterminacies and contingencies. Therefore, we need new ways to understand and explain the relations of divine providence and creaturely action. The volume is structured dynamically, going from chapters on human providence to those on divine providence, and back. Drawing on insights from virtue ethics, psychology and cognitive science, the philosophy of providence in the face of contingent events, and the theology of grace, each chapter contributes to an original overall perspective: that human providential action is a resource suited specifically to personal action and hence related to the purported providential action of a personal God. By putting forward a fresh take on divine providence, this book enters new territory on an age-old issue. It will therefore be of great interest to scholars of theology and philosophy.
Download or read book True Friendship written by John Cuddeback, Ph.D. and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want true friends. But how many of us really know what friendship is, or where to find it? In these pages, philosopher John Cuddeback weaves together the timeless wisdom of Scripture, of the ancient Greeks, and the saints to map out the steep and beautiful path to man's greatest joy—true friendship. Following Aristotle's teachings on the unbreakable connection between happiness and virtuous living, Cuddeback sees friendship at the very center of the human drama. Although there are different kinds of friendship, the deepest kind can only be achieved through a life of virtue, and this is where the human person comes most fully alive. True Friendship offers simple yet rich advice on how to tap into this reality in our own lives. Such friendship demands much of us, but it gives us even more, as individuals and as a society. Both the Old and New Testaments place a premium on friendship. In the Christian vision, the philosophers' insights attain a broader supernatural perspective. Christ transforms human friendship and expands it. With help from the writings of Saints Thomas and Aelred, Cuddeback discovers what lies at the heart of the Christian life—the wondrous and unsurpassable reality of friendship with God in Jesus, the Divine Friend, who is at work in all our authentic friendships.
Download or read book Divine Friendship According to Saint Thomas written by Hieronymus Wilms and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible written by Herbert Lockyer and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1988-09-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique classification of all scripture designations of the three persons of the Trinity. In this exhaustive study one becomes acutely aware that the riches of God's self-revelation are inexhaustible.
Download or read book Divine Intimacy written by Gabriel Of St. Mary Magdalen and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine Intimacy is considered a classic throughout the Christian world, a work prepared with loving and conscientious labor by one of the great Catholic teachers of our time. This revision of his famous works vibrates with the freshness of the springtime of grace stirred up by Vatican II and inspired by the renewed impulse to a more vital return to Sacred Scripture. Of all the books of meditation available today, this series is the most practical, liturgically and spiritually formative, and helpful for true communion with God. Volume III covers from the Ninth Sunday through the Twenty-first week of Ordinary Time.
Download or read book Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine written by Sally Douglas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to debates about Jesus is the issue of whether he uniquely embodies the divine. While this discussion continues unabated, both those who affirm and those who dismiss, Jesus' divinity regularly eclipse the reality that in many of the earliest strands of the Christian tradition when Jesus' divinity is proclaimed, Jesus is imaged as the female divine. Sally Douglas investigates these early texts, excavates the motivations for imaging Jesus as Woman Wisdom and the complex reasons that this began to be suppressed in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The work concludes with an exploration of the powerful implications of engaging with the ancient proclamation of Jesus-Woman Wisdom in contemporary context.
Download or read book MAKE ROOM IN YOUR HEART FOR TRUE DIVINE LOVE written by Kalisha N. Stansell and published by Kalisha N. Stansell. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My personal journey of love and relationships taught me some pretty hard lessons in love, in which some of them I share with you in this book. Through these lessons I have learned that all relationships have come to teach you a lesson in love and the first lesson is to love ourselves. I used to depend on others for true love and happiness. This is until I learned that relationships are solely meant to add to the love and happiness you already have. After I discovered this, I began to look within to heal the little girl within who didn’t feel loved. And who was also looking for love in all the wrong places. In this book, I take you through a journey of healing, letting go and releasing all that no longer serves you through the freedom power of forgiveness; so you may have room in your heart to receive true divine love! I hope you will find the information contained in this book useful to assist you on your healing journey.
Download or read book A Friendship Like No Other written by William A. Barry and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live in the love of a God who desires a relationship with you. Throughout A Friendship Like No Other, renowned spiritual director William A. Barry, SJ, explores the premise that God wants to relate to us as a close friend. Barry has contemplated this idea—radical for many Christians—throughout his lifetime, and he explains that it actually traces back to the “developing revelation of God contained in the Bible.” A Friendship Like No Other offers three well-supported and practical sections: prayerful exercises to help lead you to the conviction that God wants your friendship; a close look at objections to this idea; and reflections on experiencing the presence of God and discerning those experiences. Brief, personal meditations are woven throughout. Grounded in biblical tradition and with a clear focus on Ignatian spirituality, this book offers a fresh, heart-changing approach to living joyfully in the freedom of the divine embrace.
