Inspirational Religious category: 3818 books

Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle’s The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and everything alive, which is to say all prayers.

"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of...

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, Christmas trees, lights, the baby Jesus, and, of course, presents. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your ears, or maybe you even picture nutcrackers or Scrooge and Tiny Tim. Christmas has...

Jen Minkman was born in the Netherlands in 1978. Although she has always written stories in Dutch, the poems and lyrics she writes are almost exclusively in English. The title ‘Undercurrent’ refers to the reason she started writing poetry: whenever she could not express her emotions verbally,...

The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.

George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery drawn...

With my back against the wall, I bleed.The last of all I could ever needHas gone away.Empty of all illusion,As to what to say,I fill the void.All I ask is not to fall, but I seeThat the past has come to call and feed.I pray,Upon shattered knees; I’d rather beAnything but this emptyingSelf-delusion that I’m includedIn what’s become better than living bitterly.

The Four Ancient Books of Wales by William F. Skene The only available translation of the complete corpus of Welsh Bardic poetry. "This is William Skene's anthology of dark-age Welsh Bardic poetry. Often cited, but difficult to obtain, this book contains every remaining piece of...

Speaking In Tears is a collection of poetry and photographs expressing: Joy and Sorrow. Love and Loss. Hope and Despair. Join Grace on her journey from Grief and Depression to Peace and Acceptance. *Prisms* she fell asleep clinging to wishes dreams colored in tear-refracted light prisms...

Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women. Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need...

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 1941) was a famous Bengali author. He is perhaps best known for Gitanjali , and was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). This collection includes Gitanjali and many others, including Fruit-Gathering, Stray Birds, The Crescent Moon, The Home...

Revell has such a loyal following, and his books are widely used in college contemporary poetry classes around the nation. Lives in Las Vegas, NV, with potential to tour on the west coast.

An energetically channelled collection of poetry. Visions, and observations of a Claricognisant.

The process of aging occurs one day at a time. It is cumulative and at some point, every person becomes aware that they have more of life in retrospect than prospect.Under ordinary circumstances, that awareness comes as a surprise: it is suddenly there; unbidden and unexpected. Suddenly one...