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| Titre : | Victorious Living |
| Auteurs : | E. Stanley Jones, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | 4th reprint |
| Editeur : | Londres [GB] : Hodder and Stoughton, 1939 |
| Format : | 374 p. |
| Note générale : | 1st ed. 1936 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | LS/B (Recueils annuels de méditations: classés par auteurs) |
| Résumé : |
Three years ago the inner urge came to me to write on Victorious Living. The Voice seemed to sum up a conclusion, which through years of dealing with enquirers has become a most pressing fact—namely, that the most urgent necessity in human living is to be able to face life victoriously. For many—the number is appalling—are living morally and spiritually defeated. They are inwardly beaten, hence outwardly ineffective. They do not know how to live and to live victoriously. They lack resources. This book is addressed to that need.
I have tried to combine the individual and the social emphases in a living blend, with a devotional spirit running through all. The socially-minded must be patient if I seem in the beginning to stress over-much the personal emphasis. I think we should begin just there. But we must not end there. The end is the sum total of human relationships. In the structure of the book I have tried to meet three needs, (1) A book of daily devotions for personal, group and family devotions. Instead of making it, as is usual in devotional books, a book of scattered thoughts, changing from day to day, I have woven the devotions around one theme, Victorious Living. (2) I have gathered these daily studies into groups of seven, so that the book can be used as a weekly study book by classes of various kinds. (3) I have tried to put the subject matter into such a continuous whole that it may be read through as an ordinary book. I have begun at the lowest rung of the ladder, and have tried to go step by step to the full implications of victorious living. Mature souls must be patient with the first steps, remembering that many are not able to live a victorious life because they do not know how to link up with God’s power. […] This book was written during a three months’ “ retreat ” in the Himalayas, the mornings being spent in writing and the afternoons and evenings in going through a course of reading—the only vacation, if it can be called one, I have had for some years. […] At the close of the “ retreat ” I had the unspeakable privilege of presenting the manuscript during May and June to the Sat Tai Ashram Group, made up of many nationalities, and getting their criticisms and suggestions. Many in that group were led into victorious living as we made our way through step by step, and now it goes to the larger circle, and it goes out with prayer that among them too there may be many who will find through these pages a clear path from confused and baffled and defeated human living to living that is certain, adequate and victorious. – E. Stanley Jones |
| Note de contenu : |
- Introduction
- Daily meditations |
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