Crossing the Threshold of Hope
John Paul II, 1994
A pope answers the questions people actually ask about suffering, hope, evil and faith, in a direct book-length interview rather than a formal encyclical.
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Hell is less a sentence handed down than a door locked from the inside.
Resurrection of the body is to be preceded by a judgment passed upon the works of charity, fulfilled or neglected. As a result of this judgement, the just are destined to eternal life. There is a destination to eternal damnation as well, which consists in the ultimate rejection of God, the ultimate break of the communion with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Here, it is not so much God who rejects man, but man who rejects God. -
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Heaven is for Real
Todd Burpo, 2010
A Nebraska pastor's four-year-old survives emergency surgery and starts describing a heaven of rainbow colors and people he could not have known. His father tries to make sense of it.
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The Purpose Driven Life
Rick Warren, 2002
A forty-day guide to asking what you were made for, with plainspoken chapters on time, resentment, humility and surrender.
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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins, 2006
A biologist argues that unbelief is a reasonable position, and that morality, meaning and wonder survive perfectly well without God.
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Ζήσε
Lisa McMann, 2019
A Greek Orthodox priest reflects on fear, faith and the choices that make a life feel fully lived.
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Γιατί φοβόμαστε τη χαρά και νιώθουμε ένοχοι μπροστά στην ευτυχία
Χαράλαμπος Παπαδόπουλος, 2020
A gentle, faith-shaped challenge to the guilt that can shadow happiness, and an invitation to let joy belong to you.
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Αν... ζούσα τη ζωή μου απ' την αρχή
Χαράλαμπος Παπαδόπουλος, 2024
A Greek priest reflects on gratitude, hardship and what it means to live rather than merely get through the day.
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Γίνε, αυτό που είσαι, μπορείς και αντέχεις
Χαράλαμπος Παπαδόπουλος, 2023
A short, faith-inflected invitation to question the stories you tell about yourself and imagine what you can still become.
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Άγιος Παΐσιος ο Αγιορείτης
Ν. Γεώργιος Φουκαδάκης, 2017
A researched portrait of Saint Paisios that places his words in the landscapes, relationships and history that shaped his life.
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Άγιος Πορφύριος ο Καυσοκαλυβίτης
Ν. Γεώργιος Φουκαδάκης, 2020
A devotional portrait of Saint Porphyrios, tracing the warmth and spiritual force that drew people from many walks of life toward him.
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The part of his family's story he can enjoy telling, and the part he can't.
It’s fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it’s not fun to talk about how we got there.
Heaven is for Real · Todd Burpo
If you're only good because someone is watching, is it goodness?
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God’s approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That’s not morality, that’s just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.
The God Delusion · Richard Dawkins
Sometimes the fear of losing life begins with not quite living it.
Φοβούνται τον θάνατο περισσότερο εκείνοι που φοβούνται τη ζωή. Όσο περισσότερο είμαστε μακριά από τα όνειρα και τις επιθυμίες μας, από τον πραγματικό εαυτό μας και τις βασικές ανάγκες μας, όσο κρυβόμαστε από τη ζωή κλεισμένοι στους φόβους μας, τόσο ο θάνατος στοιχειώνει το μυαλό και την ψυχή μας. Ο φόβος του θανάτου είναι φόβος της ζωής.
Ζήσε · Lisa McMann
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