The Assurance of Hope An Anthology

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

ISBN: 9780826482716 | 0826482716
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/11/2007

Buy New

Print on Demand: 2-4 Weeks. This item cannot be cancelled or returned.

$25.88

The world is alive with evidence that compels mankind to hope. It is an insatiable human appetite. Poets have found it, and so have the wise from hard experience. This anthology draws from the greatest spiritual writers with a Christian insight through the centuries. Each of its 90 extracts, in verse or prose, is a pleasure to read.

Introduction	p. ix
Life's journey	p. 1
A very pleasant day	p. 1
Lift me o'er the stiles	p. 3
The vision of peace	p. 4
To be a Pilgrim	p. 7
A wonderful world	p. 9
The secret fire	p. 9
The threshold of Spring	p. 13
Pyramids like lavender	p. 15
No intractable clod	p. 18
Glad that I live	p. 19
Like an Aethiop bride	p. 20
The bridal chamber	p. 21
Half for the eagle	p. 22
The dearest freshness	p. 23
At home	p. 24
Indoors, soft and dry	p. 24
Happy in your house	p. 26
More than wages	p. 26
A cheerful task	p. 29
Another self	p. 30
Like the useful bee	p. 32
Pregnancy as work of an	p. 33
When loved and happy meet	p. 34
A husband restored	p. 35
To be is good	p. 37
Astonishment at existence	p. 37
I only know I am	p. 40
All shall be well	p. 40
Attitude	p. 43
Living in the sun	p. 43
Cheerfulness	p. 49
Not as the hedgehog	p. 50
Twenty tips	p. 52
Twenty-one hints	p. 53
Relearning happiness	p. 55
A case of knives	p. 57
Leave comfort root-room	p. 59
Shocking vexations	p. 59
From death to life	p. 64
The last trial	p. 64
Jaws of the fish	p. 72
Buried with Christ	p. 74
Two styles of dying	p. 80
Cardinal Wiseman	p. 80
Francis of Assisi	p. 83
Surviving others	p. 87
I will not let him go	p. 87
An end to grieving	p. 89
Where is God?	p. 89
The sea at Brighton	p. 92
What I had seen	p. 93
Loud voice for singing	p. 94
We'll try to understand	p. 95
Naught to weep for	p. 96
Finding forgiveness	p. 97
Too heavy for me to bear	p. 97
Hope is the window	p. 98
Happy fault	p. 100
Stings and honey	p. 102
Be comforted	p. 107
I smell the dew	p. 110
The world a prison	p. 112
The door shut	p. 112
To blossom again	p. 117
Not in a dungeon	p. 118
Looking forward	p. 124
How to be really happy	p. 124
Grassy meadows	p. 129
Get nearer the sun	p. 130
Hungerly to a pilchard	p. 133
Give me the scorpions	p. 134
Forget servile fear	p. 135
Trust	p. 138
God with us	p. 139
Sweet concord	p. 139
Snow in Salmon	p. 142
They flourished for me!	p. 143
New heart at dawn	p. 148
Faith without a hope	p. 149
Our Captain God	p. 157
Jesus	p. 158
The best friend	p. 158
The lamb came to me	p. 160
Know, love and follow	p. 161
The secret garden	p. 161
The fact itself	p. 166
The Comforter	p. 167
The shadow of thy wings	p. 167
Rest in hardship	p. 174
Many are His uses	p. 175
Joy and peace	p. 179
God's gift of God	p. 179
Walking with God	p. 184
Everything in the ark	p. 184
A turn in the gallery	p. 185
Religion of love	p. 186
Strengthening	p. 187
Never mind the weather	p. 189
Batter my heart	p. 195
Ebb and flow	p. 195
Salamanders	p. 199
Care in all times	p. 200
Angels descending	p. 202
Envoi	p. 203
Sources and further reading	p. 205
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

The Assurance of Hope An Anthology

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials