Great Lives

A Trinity Forum Readings Collection

8 Readings booklets—biographies and autobiographies, packed in one of our handsome slipcases.

  1. Abraham Lincoln: The Spiritual Growth of a Public Man (Trueblood)
  2. Jesus, a Layman’s Primer (McDonald)
  3. The Oak and the Calf (Solzhenitsyn)
  4. Shantung Compound (Gilkey)
  5. A Spiritual Pilgrimage (Muggeridge)
  6. William Wilberforce: A Man Who Changed His Times (Pollock)
  7. Wrestling with God (Weil)
  8. Who Stands Fast? (Bonhoeffer)

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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. . . . Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

William James, The Principles of Psychology, chapter 8

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