Sayings and Books that Help Me (And can Help You, Too!)

Motivation
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Slogans and Sayings

  • One day at a time.
  • When man listens, God speaks.
  • Let go and let God.
  • Live and let live.
  • First things first.
  • Principles before personalities.
  • Is your program powered by Will Power or Higher Power?
  • Count your blessings.
  • I can’t, He can, I think I’ll let Him.
  • FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real.
  • GOD = Good Orderly Direction.
  • It’s a simple program for complicated people.
  • The Four Absolutes: Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love.
  • The Five C’s: Confidence, Confession, Conviction, Conversion, Continuance.
  • There is a God and I’m not Him.
  • Learn to listen and listen to learn.
  • If you don’t want to slip, stay away from slippery places.
  • Keep it simple.
  • To thine own self be true.
  • Easy does it.
  • Act as if.
  • This too shall pass.
  • The elevator is broken - use the Steps.
  • Faith without works is dead. (James 2:17)
  • The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Spiritual Books

  • Confessions of St. Augustine.
  • The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis.
  • The Big Book and The Twelve & Twelve.
  • The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life by Emmet Fox.
  • The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
  • The Practice of the Presence of God by Br. Lawrence.
  • The Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
  • The Way of a Pilgrim.
  • Repentance and Confession by St. Nektarios of Aegina.
  • The Spiritual Canticle and The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross.
  • The Seven Story Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation, and Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton.
  • Behold the Spirit by Alan Watts.
  • Mere Christianity and The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis.
  • The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
  • Silence by Shusaku Endo.
  • Steps and Stories by Sandy Beach (currently reading).
  • A New Pair of Glasses by Chuck Chamberlain (currently reading).
  • The Principles of Jesus by Rev. Robert Speer.
  • Catechism of Mental Prayer by Fr. Joseph Simler.
  • Jesus, Son of Man and The Prophet by Khalil Gibran.
  • The Dhammapada.
  • Twenty-Four Hours a Day (I read it every morning).
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
  • The Analects of Confucius.
  • Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.
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Good stuff for me meetings and the big book helped me

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