The Art of Christian ListeningPaulist Press, 1980 - 128 pagini The author clearly shows the many ways in which we can serve others through listening to their stor-ies. This listening may take place in the context of informal relationships as friendship or parent-hood, or in the more formal settings of teacher/student. |
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Counseling and Spiritual Direction | 26 |
Growth in the Christian Life | 36 |
Prayer An Orientation | 47 |
Prayer Helping Someone Grow in It | 56 |
Christian Choices An Orientation | 65 |
Christian Choices A Method | 75 |
Pitfalls | 86 |
Preparing Oneself | 94 |
Typical Situations | 101 |
More Typical Situations | 111 |
The Gift of the Needy | 125 |
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Pagina 67 - These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Pagina 67 - When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth...
Pagina 28 - The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And, for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things...
Pagina 29 - O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Pagina 68 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Pagina 12 - We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies. For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus 'sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.
Pagina 14 - I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong
Pagina 28 - ... that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Pagina 29 - O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
Pagina 8 - Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.