The One Who Listens – Vintage Book

Description

The One Who Listens is a book of prayer. It is a book which assumes that God is, and goes on from there to do two things. Firstly, it attempts to mark out a path or few signposts for those who seek God and the what and the how of man’s relationship with him. Secondly, it fills out between the signposts some of the stepping-stones or prayers used at various times and by various people. There are prayers by the saints – Francis of Assisi, John of the Cross, Jane de Chantal, Thomas More, Dionysius and others. There are prayers by Tagore, Muhammed, Herrick, Kierkegaard, Newman. There are modern prayers by Quoist, Barclay, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Dag Hammarskjold. There are day and night prayers, prayers for moods, crises, joys, sufferings, praise and intercession, prayers for forgiveness and opening up, prayers in times of darkness and unbelief.