Author: Henry Van Dyke
Publisher: Arc Manor LLC
Keywords: man, wise, story
Number of Pages: 49
Published: 2009-02
ISBN-10: 1604506296
ISBN-13: 9781604506297

Henry Van Dyke was a 19th century American educator, clergyman, and writer. After graduating from the Princeton Theological Seminary he became a professor of literature at Princeton. He later became the U S minister to the Netherlands. While ambassador to the Netherlands he played a major role in helping President Wilson keep the US out of World War I. Van Dyke wrote poetry, essays and hymns. He wrote the words to the hymn Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee. First published in 1895, this story about faith has become a Christmas classic. It describes the pilgrimage of a fourth wise man who does not re

Author: Marlo
Publisher: Edel Germany GmbH
Keywords: joyful, sounds, fun, wisdom, experience, buddha
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2004-08-19
ISBN-10: 393740614X
ISBN-13: 9783937406145

For more than two and a half millennia, Buddha's words have reached out to people, but the doctrine of wisdom from the Far East was never relevant as in our times. With artfully arranged photographs and excerpts of Indian wisdom, The Buddha Experience invites you to join a journey into the modern world of Buddha. Music CDs: This earBOOK offers exclusively produced chill-out and lounge music. It is inspired by Eastern influences and emphasizes the colorful world of images turning The Buddha Experience into an event for the senses.

Author: Emmy Arnold
Publisher: Plough Publishing House
Keywords: community, life, pilgrimage, joyful
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1998-11
ISBN-10: 0874869560
ISBN-13: 9780874869569

Emmy Arnold was born in 1883 in Riva, Latvia, to a prominent family of academics. As an adult she turned her back on the middle-class milieu of her upbringing and married Eberhard Arnold, a revolutionary public speaker. In 1920 the couple left their Berlin home and founded a rural commune that still exists in the Bruderhof, and as a Christian communal movement in the USA, UK and Australia. This is a biography and history of Emmy Arnold’s life and work.

Author: Andrew Case
Publisher: Andrew Case
Keywords: wife, excellent, prayers
Number of Pages: 249
Published: 2009-12-05
ISBN-10: 1449534023
ISBN-13: 9781449534028

A practical prayer-book designed to help wives pray God's Word for their husbands consistently. "God sees when women kneel in prayer for their husbands, and 'Prayers of an Excellent Wife' provides the reader with all the scriptural principles and language needed to cover a man with powerful intercession-prayers so effective, they'll resonate throughout his life." -JONI EARECKSON TADA"'Prayers of an Excellent Wife' will inspire you to pray faithfully and fervently, and instruct you how to pray according to Scripture. I hope many wives will use these prayers to lavish their husbands with kindnes

Author: Joseph Lavant
Publisher: OMI Publications
Keywords: speaks, god, context, book
Number of Pages: 45
Published: 2005-01-01
ISBN-10: 097646280X
ISBN-13: 9780976462804

Important messages sometimes come from unlikely sources and when least expected. The Book of Context is such a message. It ardently advocates for our children and all future generations appealing to our hearts and minds on behalf of their welfare. This is a message not only for those of faith, but for all who seek place and purpose in life. It provides inspiration and direction that crosses all religious lines with a common appeal to take personal responsibility for the needs of others, and to help secure a safe and joyful place in life for future generations.The Book of Context is a story tol

Author: Copthorne Macdonald
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: effective, living, joyful, strategies, life, getting
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2001-10-11
ISBN-10: 0595202462
ISBN-13: 9780595202461

This book is about crafting full, rich, creative, and enjoyable lives for ourselves; lives that are significant, lives that contribute in some way to the world around us. Getting a Life is rooted in the idea that some steps toward wisdom require nothing more than a fresh look at common life situations, nothing more than an appreciation of the difference between skillful and unskillful ways of dealing with those situations. Its premise is that a few truths about everyday life, if pointed out and taken seriously, can make a significant difference in the quality of day-to-day living and our enjoy

Author: Piya TanRatna Ei Geik Lim
Publisher: Minding Centre
Keywords: words, healing, joys, simple
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 2011-01-01
ISBN-10: 981089287X
ISBN-13: 9789810892876

FOREWORD This is a book of readings for thinking people, for those who value self-understanding. We might see this as self-help servings of healing words from early Buddhist recipes for emotional health, a full life and spiritual liberation. This anthology records my weekly reflections written from September 2009 to May 2011, in response to some current affairs or while reflecting on uplifting moments of being joyfully touched by the Buddha’s teachings, that is, by life’s simple and true realities. If you read between the lines, you would see that this is a record of your ow