The world is alive with evidence that compels mankind to hope. It is an insatiable human appetite. Poets have found it, and so have the wise from hard experience. This anthology draws from the greatest spiritual writers with a Christian insight through the centuries. Each of its 90 extracts, in vers... (more)

Christian prayer rests on two foundations which give it its specific character: belief in the transcendent and personal nature of the God who is revealed in the Bible, and acceptance of the intimate relation of God and man made possible by the atoning work of the Incarnate Christ The book is for peo... (more)

Each sermon is introduced by a short note on the preacher and his time and a contemporary prayer is added at the end. The sermons range from hell fire to profound spiritual comfort. John Knox`s sermon castigates the monstrous regiment of women, Bossuet preaches on the love of God and Martin Luther K... (more)

An erudite and spiritually uplifting anthology of readings chosen for their intrinsic literary merit. The selection is based on material originally written in the English language, but there are also extracts from foreign writers who have influenced the religious life of the English-speaking world. ... (more)