Beside the Bible, what books have influenced your life?
Great question, thanks for asking. I can’t articulate a list
of books in a specific order, but the following works have had a dramatic
impact on my life:
Happiness Is A Serious Problem, by Dennis Prager. Prager’s
thesis in the book is that man has an obligation to his Creator and to his
fellow human beings to be “happy” people.
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl. This book,
written in 1946, depicts Frankl’s Holocaust experience and defines his
therapeutic method of finding a reason for living.
A Code of Jewish Ethics (Vol. 1) You Shall Be Holy and (Vol.
2) Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, by Joseph Telushkin. Both of these volumes
demonstrate the light of the Jewish part of our Judeo/Christian ethic in a time
of impending darkness.
The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This book
describes the courage of the human will in the face of evil. It has an
uplifting message of the enduring human traits of peace and kindness.
Freedom of the Will, by Jonathan Edwards. Exploring the
nature and state of man’s will, Edwards explains our great need of God’s grace
for salvation.
The Cost of Discipleship, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This book
is challenging if for no other reason than Bonhoeffer’s compelling statement:
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
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