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Faith & Purpose

Books on living with meaning, conviction, and grace.

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A still life that evokes the Faith & Purpose reading room

Collection index

A shelf with an argument.

Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.

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01

Max Lucado

Anxious for Nothing

Calm, in this book, is not self-manufactured certainty. It is borrowed steadiness.

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Shauna Niequist

Present Over Perfect

The world can wait while you return to the life that is actually yours.

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Michael Todd

Relationship Goals

Love becomes safer when purpose is clearer than chemistry.

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Trent Shelton, Lou Aronica

The Greatest You

Your life changes when your private standards finally catch up to your public potential.

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Rick Warren · 2002

The Purpose Driven Life

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

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John Mark Comer · 2019

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

If hurry is the disease that makes love impossible, the cure is a life arranged around presence.

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Gary Thomas

The Sacred Search

The holiest search is not for someone who completes your story. It is for someone who helps your life become a better offering.

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William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience

The deepest question is not what a soul claims to have seen, but what kind of life becomes possible after the seeing.

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DeVon Franklin, Meagan Good

The Wait

Waiting is not losing time. It is protecting the future from the version of you that only knows how to choose in a hurry.

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David Deida · 1997

The Way of the Superior Man

Purpose without presence becomes performance; presence without purpose becomes drift.

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Jennie Allen

Get Out of Your Head

You are not your thoughts. You are the one who gets to choose which thoughts to believe — and that changes everything.

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Kate Bowler

Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!

Blessed are we who discover that grace is not the reward for a beautiful life. It is the companion for a terrible one too.

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Lysa TerKeurst

It's Not Supposed to Be This Way

God is not asking you to call the hard thing good. He is asking you to bring Him every shard and trust that repair is still possible.

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Marianne Williamson · 1992

A Return to Love

A return to love is a return to perception that makes dignity and repair possible.

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Esther Hicks · 2004

Ask and It Is Given

A better thought is useful when it creates more room for honest action.

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Richard Bach · 1970

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Freedom is not escape. It is devotion to the practice that makes you more alive.

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Stephen R. Covey · 2004

The 8th Habit

Voice appears where strength, care, need, and conscience overlap.

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Florence Scovel Shinn · 1925

The Game of Life and How to Play It

The sentence you repeat should make courage easier to practice.

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Oprah Winfrey · 2019

The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

Purpose becomes visible when your gifts meet a need and your life tells the truth.

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Rhonda Byrne · 2010

The Power

The practical power is choosing what your attention keeps feeding.

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Wayne W. Dyer · 2004

The Power of Intention

Intention is strongest when it becomes a quality you can practice today.

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Gabrielle Bernstein · 2016

The Universe Has Your Back

Trust becomes useful when it changes the next action, not just the mood.

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