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The Mystery of Godliness
One hundred short chapters on repentance, humility, prayer, love and the life hidden in Christ.
Edition details
Paperback
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 258
- ISBN-13
- 9781923901179
- Dimensions
- 7 × 10 in
- Amazon ASIN
- 1923901176
- Availability
- Available now
Hardcover
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 258
- ISBN-13
- 9781923901186
- Dimensions
- 7 × 10 in
- Amazon ASIN
- 1923901184
- Availability
- Available now
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About This Book
The life hidden in Christ begins in the heart.
We long for peace, yet carry resentment. We seek God, yet find ourselves scattered by a hundred lesser things. How does the heart learn to love what it was made for?
In The Mystery of Godliness, Saint Archdeacon Habib Girgis brings the great questions of the spiritual life into the choices of each day: how we answer an insult, endure sorrow, use our possessions, pray in weariness, and begin again after sin. His one hundred short chapters draw deeply on Scripture, moving from repentance and humility towards love, joy and communion with Christ.
Tender in encouragement and searching in its demands, this Coptic spiritual classic invites more than reflection. It asks us to let the words of faith become the pattern of our lives—and to discover, amid ordinary duties, the life that is hidden in Christ.
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