Author: Kristin Cook
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781730907494
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing can compare to living a life refined by wisdom. However, wisdom can also seem illusive, and we often find ourselves fumbling around and making poor decisions that we wish we could undo. What does it mean to walk in wisdom, and what does it look like to live a life refined by wisdom? The answer is actually pretty simple. The Bible holds the wisdom that we need to make wise decisions in everyday life. Sometimes though, navigating what the Bible says is a lot easier with some guidance, which is where Refined by Wisdom comes in. This 31 day devotional explores the topic of wisdom through daily scripture readings, discussion questions, and journaling. Each day is designed to cover a single topic and teach you how to make biblically wise decisions in everyday situations.
Refined by Wisdom
Author: Kristin Cook
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781730907494
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing can compare to living a life refined by wisdom. However, wisdom can also seem illusive, and we often find ourselves fumbling around and making poor decisions that we wish we could undo. What does it mean to walk in wisdom, and what does it look like to live a life refined by wisdom? The answer is actually pretty simple. The Bible holds the wisdom that we need to make wise decisions in everyday life. Sometimes though, navigating what the Bible says is a lot easier with some guidance, which is where Refined by Wisdom comes in. This 31 day devotional explores the topic of wisdom through daily scripture readings, discussion questions, and journaling. Each day is designed to cover a single topic and teach you how to make biblically wise decisions in everyday situations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781730907494
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing can compare to living a life refined by wisdom. However, wisdom can also seem illusive, and we often find ourselves fumbling around and making poor decisions that we wish we could undo. What does it mean to walk in wisdom, and what does it look like to live a life refined by wisdom? The answer is actually pretty simple. The Bible holds the wisdom that we need to make wise decisions in everyday life. Sometimes though, navigating what the Bible says is a lot easier with some guidance, which is where Refined by Wisdom comes in. This 31 day devotional explores the topic of wisdom through daily scripture readings, discussion questions, and journaling. Each day is designed to cover a single topic and teach you how to make biblically wise decisions in everyday situations.
Discovering the Word of Wisdom
Author: Jane Birch
Publisher: Fresh Awakenings
ISBN: 1493684965
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book is a lively exploration of the amazing revelation known to Mormons as the “Word of Wisdom.” It counsels us how and what we should eat to reach our highest potential, both physically and spiritually. New and surprising insights are presented through the perspective of what has been proven to be the healthiest human diet, a way of eating supported both by history and by science: a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) diet. WFPB vegetarian diets have been scientifically proven to both prevent and cure chronic disease, help you achieve your maximum physical potential, and make it easy to reach and maintain your ideal weight. In this book, you’ll find the stories of dozens of people who are enjoying the blessings of following a Word of Wisdom diet, and you’ll get concrete advice on how to get started! You will discover: What we should and should not eat to enjoy maximum physical health. How food is intimately connected to our spiritual well being. Why Latter-day Saints are succumbing to the same chronic diseases as the rest of the population, despite not smoking, drinking, or doing drugs. How the Word of Wisdom was designed specifically for our day. How you can receive the “hidden treasures” and other blessings promised in the Word of Wisdom. Why eating the foods God has ordained for our use is better not just for our bodies, but for the animals and for the earth. You may think you know what the Word of Wisdom says, but you’ll be amazed at what you have missed. Learn why Mormons all over the world are “waking up” to the Word of Wisdom!
Publisher: Fresh Awakenings
ISBN: 1493684965
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book is a lively exploration of the amazing revelation known to Mormons as the “Word of Wisdom.” It counsels us how and what we should eat to reach our highest potential, both physically and spiritually. New and surprising insights are presented through the perspective of what has been proven to be the healthiest human diet, a way of eating supported both by history and by science: a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) diet. WFPB vegetarian diets have been scientifically proven to both prevent and cure chronic disease, help you achieve your maximum physical potential, and make it easy to reach and maintain your ideal weight. In this book, you’ll find the stories of dozens of people who are enjoying the blessings of following a Word of Wisdom diet, and you’ll get concrete advice on how to get started! You will discover: What we should and should not eat to enjoy maximum physical health. How food is intimately connected to our spiritual well being. Why Latter-day Saints are succumbing to the same chronic diseases as the rest of the population, despite not smoking, drinking, or doing drugs. How the Word of Wisdom was designed specifically for our day. How you can receive the “hidden treasures” and other blessings promised in the Word of Wisdom. Why eating the foods God has ordained for our use is better not just for our bodies, but for the animals and for the earth. You may think you know what the Word of Wisdom says, but you’ll be amazed at what you have missed. Learn why Mormons all over the world are “waking up” to the Word of Wisdom!
The Essence of Wisdom
Author: Stephen Mitchell
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 9780767903059
Category : Spiritual life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A renowned writer and translator presents an anthology of essential quotations from the masters of spiritual wisdom, including The Buddha, Lao-tzu, Heraclitus, the Zen and Sufi masters, Spinoza, Blake, Emerson, Rilke, and other timeless sages.
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 9780767903059
Category : Spiritual life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A renowned writer and translator presents an anthology of essential quotations from the masters of spiritual wisdom, including The Buddha, Lao-tzu, Heraclitus, the Zen and Sufi masters, Spinoza, Blake, Emerson, Rilke, and other timeless sages.
Bear and Forbear
Author: Ross Frazier
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781098906955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Over 2000 years ago, the Greek began creating a system of ideas that the Romans would later refine into Stoic philosophy. The building blocks of Stoicism can be found in every psychology textbook and every video, article, book, seminar, or workshop on personal development.Stoic teachings have held up very well over the millennia, spreading quietly and usually unacknowledged under the guise of a religion or various schools of psychology.One thing that has allowed Stoicism to endure is that so many of its ideas seem common sensical when laid out in front of you. Yet each concept would be difficult to come up with and follow all on your own. Stoicism clearly and plainly connects the dots for you, laying out exactly the makings of a good life. Bear & Forbear seeks to make these teachings even more accessible to the modern world, while preserving the beauty and nuance of the ancient texts.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781098906955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Over 2000 years ago, the Greek began creating a system of ideas that the Romans would later refine into Stoic philosophy. The building blocks of Stoicism can be found in every psychology textbook and every video, article, book, seminar, or workshop on personal development.Stoic teachings have held up very well over the millennia, spreading quietly and usually unacknowledged under the guise of a religion or various schools of psychology.One thing that has allowed Stoicism to endure is that so many of its ideas seem common sensical when laid out in front of you. Yet each concept would be difficult to come up with and follow all on your own. Stoicism clearly and plainly connects the dots for you, laying out exactly the makings of a good life. Bear & Forbear seeks to make these teachings even more accessible to the modern world, while preserving the beauty and nuance of the ancient texts.
The World's Great Wisdom
Author: Roger Walsh
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438449577
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times. What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to lifes ills. However, along with scientific achievements came disasters, particularly the devastation of the planet through the accelerating use of modern technology. In an era drenched in data, a desire for wisdom has been reborn. Where can we go to learn about wisdom? The answer is clear: to the worlds great religions and their accompanying philosophies and psychologies. The Worlds Great Wisdom makes these treasuries available. Practitioners from each of the great religionsas well as from Western philosophy and contemporary researchprovide summaries of their traditions understandings of wisdom, the means for cultivating it, and its implications for the modern world. This book offers distillations of the worlds accumulated wisdomancient and modern, religious and scientific, philosophical and psychological. It is a unique resource that for the first time in history brings together our collective understanding of wisdom and the ways to develop it.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438449577
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times. What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to lifes ills. However, along with scientific achievements came disasters, particularly the devastation of the planet through the accelerating use of modern technology. In an era drenched in data, a desire for wisdom has been reborn. Where can we go to learn about wisdom? The answer is clear: to the worlds great religions and their accompanying philosophies and psychologies. The Worlds Great Wisdom makes these treasuries available. Practitioners from each of the great religionsas well as from Western philosophy and contemporary researchprovide summaries of their traditions understandings of wisdom, the means for cultivating it, and its implications for the modern world. This book offers distillations of the worlds accumulated wisdomancient and modern, religious and scientific, philosophical and psychological. It is a unique resource that for the first time in history brings together our collective understanding of wisdom and the ways to develop it.
Web Wisdom
Author: Marsha Ann Tate
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0805831223
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Web Wisdom is an essential reference for anyone needing to evaluate or establish information quality on the World Wide Web. The book includes easy to use checklists for step-by-step quality evaluations of virtually any Web page. The checklists can also be used by Web authors to help them ensure quality information on their pages. In addition, Web Wisdom addresses other important issues, such as understanding the ways that advertising and sponsorship may affect the quality of Web information. It features: * a detailed discussion of the items involved in evaluating Web information; * checklists tailored to the creation and evaluation of specific Web page types (advocacy, business, informational, news, personal, entertainment); * over 40 screen captures illustrating the principles presented in the book; * discussion of copyright issues and meta tags; and * a glossary of terms and bibliography.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0805831223
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Web Wisdom is an essential reference for anyone needing to evaluate or establish information quality on the World Wide Web. The book includes easy to use checklists for step-by-step quality evaluations of virtually any Web page. The checklists can also be used by Web authors to help them ensure quality information on their pages. In addition, Web Wisdom addresses other important issues, such as understanding the ways that advertising and sponsorship may affect the quality of Web information. It features: * a detailed discussion of the items involved in evaluating Web information; * checklists tailored to the creation and evaluation of specific Web page types (advocacy, business, informational, news, personal, entertainment); * over 40 screen captures illustrating the principles presented in the book; * discussion of copyright issues and meta tags; and * a glossary of terms and bibliography.
Wisdom in Leadership
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922206718
Category : Christian leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Reading this book won't make Christian leadership easy. But it will make it easier. The strategies and principles here won't remove all frustration from Christian leadership.But they will make it less frustrating. This book won't solve every problem. But it will help you solve a whole bunch of unnecessary problems that you really don't need to face.- Craig Hamilton, Author.- Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922206718
Category : Christian leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Reading this book won't make Christian leadership easy. But it will make it easier. The strategies and principles here won't remove all frustration from Christian leadership.But they will make it less frustrating. This book won't solve every problem. But it will help you solve a whole bunch of unnecessary problems that you really don't need to face.- Craig Hamilton, Author.- Back cover.
Refined by Failure
Author: C. Lloyd Brown
Publisher: Copper Quill Publishing
ISBN: 9781736922118
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
As leaders, we fail more times than we'd like to admit. However, failure doesn't define who you are as a person--unless you let it.In this profound book, author Lloyd Brown shares his 10 Rules of Business along with painfully personal stories that give insight into the real-life application of those rules, as well as the real-world consequences of breaking them. A 30-year veteran of the oil and gas industry and former CEO and founder of Smart Chemical Services, Lloyd shares his failures and regrets, trusting you to take the lessons that he learned-the hard way-and apply them in your own life. Before you get burned.
Publisher: Copper Quill Publishing
ISBN: 9781736922118
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
As leaders, we fail more times than we'd like to admit. However, failure doesn't define who you are as a person--unless you let it.In this profound book, author Lloyd Brown shares his 10 Rules of Business along with painfully personal stories that give insight into the real-life application of those rules, as well as the real-world consequences of breaking them. A 30-year veteran of the oil and gas industry and former CEO and founder of Smart Chemical Services, Lloyd shares his failures and regrets, trusting you to take the lessons that he learned-the hard way-and apply them in your own life. Before you get burned.
The Wisdom of Frugality
Author: Emrys Westacott
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140088330X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Why philosophers have advocated simple living for 2,500 years—and why we ignore them at our peril From Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness. But why? And are they right? Is a taste for luxury fundamentally misguided? If one has the means to be a spendthrift, is it foolish or reprehensible to be extravagant? In this book, Emrys Westacott examines why, for more than two millennia, so many philosophers and people with a reputation for wisdom have been advocating frugality and simple living as the key to the good life. He also looks at why most people have ignored them, but argues that, in a world facing environmental crisis, it may finally be time to listen to the advocates of a simpler way of life. The Wisdom of Frugality explores what simplicity means, why it's supposed to make us better and happier, and why, despite its benefits, it has always been such a hard sell. The book looks not only at the arguments in favor of living frugally and simply, but also at the case that can be made for luxury and extravagance, including the idea that modern economies require lots of getting and spending. A philosophically informed reflection rather than a polemic, The Wisdom of Frugality ultimately argues that we will be better off—as individuals and as a society—if we move away from the materialistic individualism that currently rules.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140088330X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Why philosophers have advocated simple living for 2,500 years—and why we ignore them at our peril From Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness. But why? And are they right? Is a taste for luxury fundamentally misguided? If one has the means to be a spendthrift, is it foolish or reprehensible to be extravagant? In this book, Emrys Westacott examines why, for more than two millennia, so many philosophers and people with a reputation for wisdom have been advocating frugality and simple living as the key to the good life. He also looks at why most people have ignored them, but argues that, in a world facing environmental crisis, it may finally be time to listen to the advocates of a simpler way of life. The Wisdom of Frugality explores what simplicity means, why it's supposed to make us better and happier, and why, despite its benefits, it has always been such a hard sell. The book looks not only at the arguments in favor of living frugally and simply, but also at the case that can be made for luxury and extravagance, including the idea that modern economies require lots of getting and spending. A philosophically informed reflection rather than a polemic, The Wisdom of Frugality ultimately argues that we will be better off—as individuals and as a society—if we move away from the materialistic individualism that currently rules.
The Beginning of Wisdom
Author: Leon Kass
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743242998
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Imagine that you could really understand the Bible...that you could read, analyze, and discuss the book of Genesis not as a compositional mystery, a cultural relic, or a linguistic puzzle palace, or even as religious doctrine, but as a philosophical classic, precisely in the same way that a truth-seeking reader would study Plato or Nietzsche. Imagine that you could be led in your study by one of America's preeminent intellectuals and that he would help you to an understanding of the book that is deeper than you'd ever dreamed possible, that he would reveal line by line, verse by verse the incredible riches of this illuminating text -- one of the very few that actually deserve to be called seminal. Imagine that you could get, from Genesis, the beginning of wisdom. The Beginning of Wisdom is a hugely learned book that, like Genesis itself, falls naturally into two sections. The first shows how the universal history described in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, from creation to the tower of Babel, conveys, in the words of Leon Kass, "a coherent anthropology" -- a general teaching about human nature -- that "rivals anything produced by the great philosophers." Serving also as a mirror for the reader's self-discovery, these stories offer profound insights into the problematic character of human reason, speech, freedom, sexual desire, the love of the beautiful, pride, shame, anger, guilt, and death. Something as seemingly innocuous as the monotonous recounting of the ten generations from Adam to Noah yields a powerful lesson in the way in which humanity encounters its own mortality. In the story of the tower of Babel are deep understandings of the ambiguous power of speech, reason, and the arts; the hazards of unity and aloneness; the meaning of the city and its quest for self-sufficiency; and man's desire for fame, immortality, and apotheosis -- and the disasters these necessarily cause. Against this background of human failure, Part Two of The Beginning of Wisdom explores the struggles to launch a new human way, informed by the special Abrahamic covenant with the divine, that might address the problems and avoid the disasters of humankind's natural propensities. Close, eloquent, and brilliant readings of the lives and educations of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's sons reveal eternal wisdom about marriage, parenting, brotherhood, education, justice, political and moral leadership, and of course the ultimate question: How to live a good life? Connecting the two "parts" is the book's overarching philosophical and pedagogical structure: how understanding the dangers and accepting the limits of human powers can open the door to a superior way of life, not only for a solitary man of virtue but for an entire community -- a life devoted to righteousness and holiness. This extraordinary book finally shows Genesis as a coherent whole, beginning with the creation of the natural world and ending with the creation of a nation that hearkens to the awe-inspiring summons to godliness. A unique and ambitious commentary, a remarkably readable literary exegesis and philosophical companion, The Beginning of Wisdom is one of the most important books in decades on perhaps the most important -- and surely the most frequently read -- book of all time.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743242998
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Imagine that you could really understand the Bible...that you could read, analyze, and discuss the book of Genesis not as a compositional mystery, a cultural relic, or a linguistic puzzle palace, or even as religious doctrine, but as a philosophical classic, precisely in the same way that a truth-seeking reader would study Plato or Nietzsche. Imagine that you could be led in your study by one of America's preeminent intellectuals and that he would help you to an understanding of the book that is deeper than you'd ever dreamed possible, that he would reveal line by line, verse by verse the incredible riches of this illuminating text -- one of the very few that actually deserve to be called seminal. Imagine that you could get, from Genesis, the beginning of wisdom. The Beginning of Wisdom is a hugely learned book that, like Genesis itself, falls naturally into two sections. The first shows how the universal history described in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, from creation to the tower of Babel, conveys, in the words of Leon Kass, "a coherent anthropology" -- a general teaching about human nature -- that "rivals anything produced by the great philosophers." Serving also as a mirror for the reader's self-discovery, these stories offer profound insights into the problematic character of human reason, speech, freedom, sexual desire, the love of the beautiful, pride, shame, anger, guilt, and death. Something as seemingly innocuous as the monotonous recounting of the ten generations from Adam to Noah yields a powerful lesson in the way in which humanity encounters its own mortality. In the story of the tower of Babel are deep understandings of the ambiguous power of speech, reason, and the arts; the hazards of unity and aloneness; the meaning of the city and its quest for self-sufficiency; and man's desire for fame, immortality, and apotheosis -- and the disasters these necessarily cause. Against this background of human failure, Part Two of The Beginning of Wisdom explores the struggles to launch a new human way, informed by the special Abrahamic covenant with the divine, that might address the problems and avoid the disasters of humankind's natural propensities. Close, eloquent, and brilliant readings of the lives and educations of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's sons reveal eternal wisdom about marriage, parenting, brotherhood, education, justice, political and moral leadership, and of course the ultimate question: How to live a good life? Connecting the two "parts" is the book's overarching philosophical and pedagogical structure: how understanding the dangers and accepting the limits of human powers can open the door to a superior way of life, not only for a solitary man of virtue but for an entire community -- a life devoted to righteousness and holiness. This extraordinary book finally shows Genesis as a coherent whole, beginning with the creation of the natural world and ending with the creation of a nation that hearkens to the awe-inspiring summons to godliness. A unique and ambitious commentary, a remarkably readable literary exegesis and philosophical companion, The Beginning of Wisdom is one of the most important books in decades on perhaps the most important -- and surely the most frequently read -- book of all time.