Seeking Peace: Notes and Conversations along the Way

Seeking Peace: Notes and Conversations along the Way

Seeking Peace: Notes and Conversations along the Way

Seeking Peace: Notes and Conversations along the Way

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Overview

Where can we find peace of heart and mind—with ourselves, with others, and with God? Arnold says most people are looking in the wrong direction. In a culture that bombards us with feel-good-about-yourself spirituality, Seeking Peace is sure to satisfy a deep hunger. There is a peace greater than self-fulfilment, a peace greater than nations no longer at war. But it will demand a relentless pursuit kept up only by hope and courage, vision and commitment.

Seeking Peace explores many facets of humankind's ageless search for peace. It plumbs a wealth of spiritual traditions and draws on the wisdom of some exceptional (and some very ordinary) people who have found peace in surprising places.

Independent Publisher Book Award winner

Foreword Magazine Book of the Year

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780874869637
Publisher: Plough Publishing House, The
Publication date: 05/25/2014
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Johann Christoph Arnold was an award-winning author with over two million copies of his twelve books in print in more than twenty languages. A noted speaker and writer on marriage, parenting, and end-of-life issues. Arnold was a senior pastor of the Bruderhof, a movement of Christian communities, until his death in April 2017.
Johann Christoph Arnold’s books include Why Forgive?, Rich in Years, Their Name Is Today, Seeking Peace, Escape Routes, Cries from the Heart, Be Not Afraid, Why Children Matter, and Sex, God and Marriage.

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword by Madeleine L’Engle Preface by Thich Nhat Hanh Introduction Part I Seeking Peace Part Meanings Peace as the Absence of War Peace in the Bible Peace as a Social Causer Peace in Personal Life The Peace of God The Peace that Passes Understanding Part III Paradoxes Not Peace, but a Sword The Violence of Love No Life without Death The Wisdom of Fools The Strength of Weakness Part IV Stepping Stones Simplicity Silence Surrender Prayer Trust Forgiveness Gratitude Honesty Humility Obedience Decisiveness Repentance Conviction Realism Service Part V The Abundant Life Security Wholeness Joy Action Justice Hope

What People are Saying About This

Mairead McGuire

Seeking Peace inspires each of us to seek peace within our own hearts.The stories in this book give hope that with God's grace and through our acceptance of his will, we can find wholeness, happiness, and harmony, which is, after all, the fulfillment of God's plan for humanity.

Thomas Howard

Seeking Peace is a gem. The candor, simplicity, and humanity of the whole text, and especially of the anecdotes, should recommend it to an exceedingly wide reading public.

John Michael Talbot

Peace builds on justice and the mercy of forgiveness. It also begins by being peace. These simple truths are manifested by this beautiful and compelling book. This book has something to say to those of all faiths, and further, to believer and non-believer alike.

Thomas Green

Seeking Peace is solidly rooted in the Christian--and even Jewish and Buddhist--tradition. As Arnold reminds us, Jesus' peace has nothing to do with passivity, nor is it for the spineless or self-absorbed. It demands deeds of love.

Bo Lozoff

I highly recommend Seeking Peace. In an age when bestseller lists bombard us with feel-good-about-yourself spirituality, Arnold dares to write frankly and deeply about the components of true peace: self-sacrifice, obedience, humility, and even longsuffering--unpopular ideas indeed. As Arnold points out, true peace is a radical state, not for the faint of heart. I am grateful for this insightful book, especially for the way it draws not only on the author's own Christian faith, but on the wisdom of other traditions.

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