Author: Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780446346825
Category : Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A powerful and wonderfully funny, ironic novel of an irascible Chicago newspaperman who rediscovers human decency, his faith, and his wife as he goes after a wicked politician who's trying to get away with murder. Greeley is the bestselling author of Angels of September and Virgin and Martyr.
Patience of a Saint
Author: Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780446346825
Category : Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A powerful and wonderfully funny, ironic novel of an irascible Chicago newspaperman who rediscovers human decency, his faith, and his wife as he goes after a wicked politician who's trying to get away with murder. Greeley is the bestselling author of Angels of September and Virgin and Martyr.
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780446346825
Category : Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A powerful and wonderfully funny, ironic novel of an irascible Chicago newspaperman who rediscovers human decency, his faith, and his wife as he goes after a wicked politician who's trying to get away with murder. Greeley is the bestselling author of Angels of September and Virgin and Martyr.
The Patience of a Saint
Author: Mike Critchley
Publisher: London League Publications
ISBN: 9781903659328
Category : Rugby League football
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
St. Helens is a staunch rugby league town - youngsters are brought up with stories of Vollenhoven, Murphy and Karalius drummed into them, and winning silverware is regarded as second nature. But suddenly, in the late 1970s, the team's form nosedived. This book recalls a difficult period in the history of the Knowsley Road club.
Publisher: London League Publications
ISBN: 9781903659328
Category : Rugby League football
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
St. Helens is a staunch rugby league town - youngsters are brought up with stories of Vollenhoven, Murphy and Karalius drummed into them, and winning silverware is regarded as second nature. But suddenly, in the late 1970s, the team's form nosedived. This book recalls a difficult period in the history of the Knowsley Road club.
Lessons from a Saint
Author: Joan Wurst
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595276415
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Imagine a life without worry. Imagine having peace and patience in any situation. Imagine being able to bring out the best in those around you. Sound too good to be true? Find out how an Australian Cattle Dog, a Saint Bernard, American Quarter Horses, and Longhorn and Corriente cattle, taught one woman to pay attention to the Lord and to learn some important lessons about those very things; how to begin to live as He intended her to live. See where some of life's most valuable lessons have surfaced - in places you may never have expected to see them.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595276415
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Imagine a life without worry. Imagine having peace and patience in any situation. Imagine being able to bring out the best in those around you. Sound too good to be true? Find out how an Australian Cattle Dog, a Saint Bernard, American Quarter Horses, and Longhorn and Corriente cattle, taught one woman to pay attention to the Lord and to learn some important lessons about those very things; how to begin to live as He intended her to live. See where some of life's most valuable lessons have surfaced - in places you may never have expected to see them.
Saint Dominic and the Rosary
Author: Catherine Beebe
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 9780898705188
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
St. Dominic led a life of excitement and adventure. As a boy he sold his books to feed the poor and offered himself as ransom for a prisoner. His greatest adventures came when he walked from town to town and stood fearlessly in the market to preach.
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 9780898705188
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
St. Dominic led a life of excitement and adventure. As a boy he sold his books to feed the poor and offered himself as ransom for a prisoner. His greatest adventures came when he walked from town to town and stood fearlessly in the market to preach.
Patience with God
Author: Tomas Halik
Publisher: Image
ISBN: 0385529570
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
For all the debate about belief and nonbelief in today’s world—and how everyone becomes pigeonholed by one or the other— Tomáš Halík teaches that God requires us to persevere with our doubts, carry them in our hearts, and allow them to lead us to maturity. For Halík, patience is the main difference between faith and atheism. Faith, hope, and love are three aspects of patience in the face of God’s silence, which is interpreted as “the death of God” by atheists and is not taken seriously enough by fundamentalists. Using the gospel story of Jesus’s encounter with Zacchaeus, Halík issues an invitation to all people who stand (like Zacchaeus did) on the sideline—curious but noncommittal. The fact that Jesus gravitated to the poor and the marginalized means that he also has a special place in his heart for diligent seekers on the margins of the community of believers.
Publisher: Image
ISBN: 0385529570
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
For all the debate about belief and nonbelief in today’s world—and how everyone becomes pigeonholed by one or the other— Tomáš Halík teaches that God requires us to persevere with our doubts, carry them in our hearts, and allow them to lead us to maturity. For Halík, patience is the main difference between faith and atheism. Faith, hope, and love are three aspects of patience in the face of God’s silence, which is interpreted as “the death of God” by atheists and is not taken seriously enough by fundamentalists. Using the gospel story of Jesus’s encounter with Zacchaeus, Halík issues an invitation to all people who stand (like Zacchaeus did) on the sideline—curious but noncommittal. The fact that Jesus gravitated to the poor and the marginalized means that he also has a special place in his heart for diligent seekers on the margins of the community of believers.
Wounded by Love
Author: Porphyrios (Gerōn)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789607120199
Category : Monks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789607120199
Category : Monks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
Author: C. M. Schwarz (ed)
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853263095
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Has more than 600 phrases, sayings, and expressions and contains explanations.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853263095
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Has more than 600 phrases, sayings, and expressions and contains explanations.
A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases, Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author: George B. Bryan
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820479477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820479477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.
A Saint from Texas
Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635572568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams-ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jericó, Colombia. And yet, even as they remake themselves in their radically different lives, the twins find that the bonds of family and the past are unbreakable. Spanning the 1950s to the recent past, Edmund White's marvelous novel serves up an immensely pleasurable epic of two Texas women as their lives traverse varied worlds: the swaggering opulence of the Dallas nouveau riche, the airless pretension of the Paris gratin, and the strict piety of a Colombian convent. For nearly half a century, Edmund White's work has revitalized American literature, blithely breaking down boundaries of class and sexuality, and A Saint From Texas is one of his most joyous, gorgeously written, and piercing works to date.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635572568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams-ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jericó, Colombia. And yet, even as they remake themselves in their radically different lives, the twins find that the bonds of family and the past are unbreakable. Spanning the 1950s to the recent past, Edmund White's marvelous novel serves up an immensely pleasurable epic of two Texas women as their lives traverse varied worlds: the swaggering opulence of the Dallas nouveau riche, the airless pretension of the Paris gratin, and the strict piety of a Colombian convent. For nearly half a century, Edmund White's work has revitalized American literature, blithely breaking down boundaries of class and sexuality, and A Saint From Texas is one of his most joyous, gorgeously written, and piercing works to date.
St. Monica and the Power of Persistent Prayer
Author: Mike Aquilina
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN: 1612783198
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Many of us give up on prayer when we don't get the answer we want WHEN we want it. For nearly two decades, Saint Monica prayed for her wayward son. Years and years of prayers, seemingly unanswered. Countless tears shed with no relief. Yet she would not give up. That very act of persistent prayer blessed the entire Church, for we have all benefitted from the conversion of her son, Augustine, who became one of the most revered saints of all time. Parents of any age or at any stage can cultivate the same virtues in prayer that Saint Monica discovered during her long wait for God's answer for her child. This devotion includes 18 contemporary reflections, meditations taken from the writings of Saint Augustine, and prayers adapted from the liturgy and other ancient sources. Don't give up. Persistence in prayer can change everything-for you, your children, and maybe even the world.
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN: 1612783198
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Many of us give up on prayer when we don't get the answer we want WHEN we want it. For nearly two decades, Saint Monica prayed for her wayward son. Years and years of prayers, seemingly unanswered. Countless tears shed with no relief. Yet she would not give up. That very act of persistent prayer blessed the entire Church, for we have all benefitted from the conversion of her son, Augustine, who became one of the most revered saints of all time. Parents of any age or at any stage can cultivate the same virtues in prayer that Saint Monica discovered during her long wait for God's answer for her child. This devotion includes 18 contemporary reflections, meditations taken from the writings of Saint Augustine, and prayers adapted from the liturgy and other ancient sources. Don't give up. Persistence in prayer can change everything-for you, your children, and maybe even the world.