The Prayer Of Silence

Author : Pete Greig
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310114642

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God on Mute by Pete Greig Pdf

An honest, soul-searching pursuit of biblical answers to one of Christianity's most challenging questions: What do you do when God meets your prayers with silence? Many of us have struggled with prayers that seem to go unanswered, and Pete Greig has been down that difficult road of doubt. This book is both intensely personal and deeply theological—a book born out of his wife Sammy's fight for her life after a horrifying diagnosis. The acclaimed author of Red Moon Rising wrestles with the hard side of prayer, how to respond when there seem to be no answers, and how to cope with those who seek to interpret our experience for us. For those struggling with prayer, God on Mute brings a message of hope and comfort, but also a better understanding of how we communicate with our Creator. Using the timeline of Holy Week (from Maundy Thursday through Easter Sunday) as a template, Greig explores four main questions about prayer from all angles: How am I going to get through this? Why aren't my prayers being answered? Where is God when he seems silent? When every prayer is answered...what does that mean? Silence in response to our most heart-felt prayers is the hardest thing for a person of faith to wrestle with. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can't explain what we're going through. People avoid you and don't know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow even God Himself seems on mute. And this sinks into us with a sense of futility... But even in this crushing silence, there is a way forward. Here is a story of faith, hope, and love beyond all understanding. Includes guide for group discussion.

Author : Robert Sarah
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681497587

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The Power of Silence by Robert Sarah Pdf

Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI! In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."

Author : A. W. Tozer
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802493606

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Prayer by A. W. Tozer Pdf

"Some churches now advertise courses on how to pray. How ridiculous! That is like giving a course on how to fall in love." —A. W. Tozer Tozer understood prayer as few do: as a way of life. Now readers can share that same grand vision. Prayer combines the best of Tozer on prayer into one volume. Tozer was captured by the great wonder of God, and he regarded prayer as the primary means of coming into His presence. But if our everyday life is filled with the barrenness of busyness and there is no serious urgency to pray, we forfeit the wonder of being conformed to the image of Christ and knowing our God more intimately—the true Christian life. Prayer is doable. God is accessible. And Tozer provides the wisdom and encouragement to help us encounter Him daily. With commentary and reflection questions provided by compiler W.L. Seaver, Prayer takes our understanding of prayer to new depths and helps us have a life that prays.

Author : A. Carthusian
Publisher : Gracewing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 085244673X

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The Prayer of Love and Silence by A. Carthusian Pdf

"The Prayer of Love and Silence" issues a powerful invitation to respond to the love of Christ. The volume is centered on the need for prayer and teaches that prayer should be a continual response to Christ's call to make him the center of one's life.

Author : Ann Lewin
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848254336

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Watching for the Kingfisher by Ann Lewin Pdf

Ann draws many insights into the nature of prayer from her love of birdwatching, and images from the natural world and from scripture permeate her writing. Wit, warmth and economy of expression characterise her style.

Author : Alexander Ryrie
Publisher : SLG Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780728302396

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The Prayer of Silence by Alexander Ryrie Pdf

Fairacres Publications 172 The cultivation of an inner life of prayer has always formed an essential part of the Christian way. Many long for silence and stillness, yet the words ‘contemplative prayer’ can seem to denote some specialist method of prayer. Sandy Ryrie, using the more accessible phrase ‘prayer of silence’, draws on Church tradition and on his own experience to describe this wordless way of praying.

Author : William H. Shannon
Publisher : Crossroad
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Contemplation
ISBN : 0824518489

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Silence on Fire by William H. Shannon Pdf

This book is a guided journey on the path of prayer that is built on faith that leads to a unique but accessible way of knowing.

Author : Phd Bruce Fraser MacDonald
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781618971937

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The Prayer of Silence by Phd Bruce Fraser MacDonald Pdf

“The Prayer of Silence” has several aims: 1. to teach basic relaxation and concentration methods based on bodily awareness; 2. to develop an awareness of the Divine Presence; 3. to overcome emotional and personality blocks to develop a sense of personal wholeness; 4. to develop an awareness of what the author, drawing on a near death experience in 1966, calls “the Watcher” aspect of consciousness that speeds the development of spiritual perception of inner “Love, Peace and Joy,” 5. to transform the ego from attachment to material and emotional limits to a spiritual Ego that is one with the “Atman” or “Spirit,” and to extend that spiritual awareness to the world and other people; 6. to be able to deal with the conflicts and potential arising from the memory of past lives; 7. to be able to find a “Spiritual Guide” in the inner person; 8. to be able to deal with the inevitable “dry periods” in spiritual practice; 9. to experience “Nirvana,” where all lower attachments are blown out; and 10. to achieve Divine Union, where the Ego and God are One, where “Atman experiences itself as one with Brahman,” where one can say with Jesus, “I and the Father are One.” There is also a very good chapter on “mantras,” so the student can learn about their nature and use, although the Prayer of Silence uses a different, more direct form of focus to achieve concentration and inner awareness. Dr. MacDonald has also remembered and worked with many of his own past lives, so he is a reliable guide to others who are going through that process. The author is a master teacher and the book presents its material in a steadily more complex form, laying the necessary foundations before proceeding to the higher levels of learning. There is a combination of theory and practical exercises so the learner can develop meditation skills gradually but with confidence, building from one stage to the next to achieve mastery of the subject. The writing is clear and concise and easy to understand. In order to explain the often difficult ideas associated with meditation and spiritual growth, Dr. MacDonald draws on the language, ideas and practice of Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist traditions to clarify ideas from different angles. He also draws on relevant scientific studies of human consciousness to help make the ideas and aims of this Prayer of Silence clear to the reader.

Author : Diane Comer
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310341789

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He Speaks in the Silence by Diane Comer Pdf

He Speaks in the Silence is about Diane Comer’s search for the kind of intimacy with God every woman longs for. It is a story of trying to be a good girl, of following the rules, of longing for a satisfaction that eludes us. Disappointed with all Diane had been told was supposed to fulfill her, she begged God in desperation to give her more. And He did. But first He took her through a trial so debilitating it almost destroyed what little faith she had. He let her go deaf. Using vivid parallels between her deafness and every woman’s struggle to hear God, this book shows women not only how Diane, as a deaf woman, hears in everyday life, but also how she can learn to listen to God in the midst of her own loud life, finding intimacy with God and the deep soul satisfaction she longs for.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Meditation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024333275

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The Fellowship of Silence by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrzej Muszala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784691305

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Silent Prayer by Andrzej Muszala Pdf

We are not accustomed to spending time with God, in silence, without any specific words or intentions. We feel more comfortable saying something! We feel we must tell him about the Church's needs, the world's needs, our own needs. Then we feel we have achieved something;we have not wasted our time. Silent prayer obliges us to leave all that to the Almighty. To enter into silent prayer we must leave everything behind. Learning how to pray is possible and a way of living that supports a deep and happy Christian faith.

Author : Carthusian
Publisher : Cistercian Studies Series
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015046368893

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The Prayer of Love and Silence by Carthusian Pdf

"This volume is centred on the need for prayer, and teaches that prayer is not merely a devotional exercise to be carried out at the beginning and end of the day, or simply as the mood takes us. We should instead strive to make it a constant, perservering activity, a continual response to Christ's call to make him the centre of our lives." [Back cover].

Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101638064

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Silence by Diarmaid MacCulloch Pdf

A provocative meditation on the role of silence in Christian tradition by the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause for silent contemplation. But as Diarmaid MacCulloch shows, there are many forms of religious silence, from contemplation and prayer to repression and evasion. In his latest work, MacCulloch considers Jesus’s strategic use of silence in his confrontation with Pontius Pilate and traces the impact of the first mystics in Syria on monastic tradition. He discusses the complicated fate of silence in Protestant and evangelical tradition and confronts the more sinister institutional forms of silence. A groundbreaking book by one of our greatest historians, Silence challenges our fundamental views of spirituality and illuminates the deepest mysteries of faith.

Author : Robert Cabié
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814613640

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The Eucharist by Robert Cabié Pdf

Traces the development of Catholic worship from the apostolic Church to the present.

Author : Cynthia Bourgeault
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Contemplation
ISBN : 9781561012626

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Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening by Cynthia Bourgeault Pdf

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening is a complete guidebook for all who wish to know the practice of Centering Prayer.