Devotional classics : selected readings for individuals and groups

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C.S. Lewis : giving all to Christ -- Dallas Willard : the cost of nondiscipleship -- Jonathan Edwards : engagement of the heart -- Francis de Sales : one true devotion -- John of the Cross : purifying the soul -- Bernard of Clairvaux : four degrees of love -- François Fénelon : a will no longer divided -- St. Augustine : complete surrender -- Thomas Merton : ways of meditation -- Julian of Norwich : the highest form of prayer -- Lancelot Andrews : a light that never sets -- Brother Lawrence : an habitual sense of God's presence -- Douglas V. Steere : the inner springs of prayer -- Henri J.M. Nouwen : bringing solitude into our lives -- George A. Buttrick : a simple regimen of private prayer -- Søren Kierkegaard : praying to will one thing -- Evelyn Underhill : what do we mean by prayer? -- Frank Laubach : opening windows to God -- John Baillie : morning prayers -- Martin Luther : praying in faith -- Jean-Nicholas Grou : the prayer of silence -- Theologica Germanica : from the outer to the inner person -- Gregory of Nyssa : running the race -- Richard Rolle : the spiritual flame -- John Calvin : the joy of self-denial -- Blaise Pascal : falling into presumption -- Benedict of Nursia : the ladder of humility -- Thomas à Kempis : dealing with temptations -- William Law : God the rule and measure -- Teresa of Ávila : striving to make progress -- Thomas Kelly : becoming a holy sanctuary of adoration -- Catherine of Genoa : waiting upon God -- George Fox : walking in the power of God -- Ignatius of Loyola : movements produced in the soul -- Jean-Pierre de Caussade : the present moment -- Isaac Pennington : waiting for breathings from his Spirit -- John Bunyan : exercising the gift -- William Temple : the church's impact on society -- John Woolman : breaking the yoke of oppression -- Hannah Whitall Smith : recovering the joy of service -- Jeremy Taylor : the grace of humility -- Elizabeth O'Connor : dealing with money -- John Wesley : loving one another -- Catherine of Siena : overflowing with love -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer : Christ in community -- E. Stanley Jones : the habit of reading the Bible daily -- Sadhu Sundar Singh : sharing the joy with others -- Francis of Assisi : a harvest of souls -- Madame Guyon : praying the Scripture -- John Chrysostom : sermon on dying -- Charles Spurgeon : sermon on revival -- Watchman Nee : evangelism.