Are there christian books that you read that changed you

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Are there christian books that changed you?

I learned about fasting !
And do 3 day fasts .

I read about the different types of prayer
 
Not exactly a Christian book (although very coherent with Christianity) is “Men’s Search for a Meaning” by Viktor Frankl which had a huge impact in my life.
 
Hmm.

The New Testament, 1 Maccabbees, the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit, the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius de Loyola, the Interior Castle of St Teresa de Avila and Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton. Although not Christian; the Enneads by Plotinus was very useful, including helping me understand the Trinity.
 
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Can You Drink The Cup? by Henri Neuwen. A short book and fast read, but each time you read it you get something more out of it. I highly recommend it.
 
Interior Castle has changed how I deal with negative distractions in everyday life that are there to take my focus off of God, and many other things.
 
Shortly after my conversion (really re-version, as I was baptized Catholic but our family never practiced the faith) I found my grandmother’s 1961 St. Joseph Continuous Sunday Missal. It is a treasure for me. I use it daily; looking at the pictures to help me concentrate while praying the Rosary, to pray the litanies and the Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It has helped me tremendously in my prayer life.
 
The Confessions of St Augustine of Hippo. This is a truly amazing work. You’ll get more out of it if you learn a bit about Plato. Augustine’s chrisianization of Plato completely changed my worldview. Plus it an antidote for post-modern nihilism.
 
My mom always had “The Dogma of Hell” laying around in her bedroom. The title always scared the living daylights out of me so I never dared opening it. Finally one day I was bored enough to crack it open and see what all the fuss was.

I had a re-version from that one book. Definitely scary, but definitely worth it.
 
Oh, I read that in college. Believe it or not is was part of the curriculum. It was really good.
 
That Hell is not what I quite imagined; it’s realer than I previously thought and people do go there. There’s a lot of stories in there of people from Hell coming back to warn people.

It’s by Father Schouppe and was first printed in 1883. Very popular in its day along with his Purgatory book.
 
Oddly enough, it wasn’t a book about prayer or any particular place in the Bible that changed me. It was Persuasive Pro Life by Trent Horn. It changed me entirely- not just in how I advocate the pro-life position.
 
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis.

This book gives an amazing insight into the spiritual warfare that goes on throughout our lives as the angels and demons work to influence us in various ways. It paints a very disturbing picture of the ways in which we can be hoodwinked by the Devil and how he can encourage certain traits in us to our own detriment.
For me it was the first time I realised the seriousness of the Church and the urgency and importance of Her mission to save souls.
 
Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis introduced me to a deep Christian spirituality.

The Rule of St. Benedict stabilized me in prayer, work and learning.

Darwin Was Wrong by IL Cohen showed me the huge improbability of evolution. Since then I’ve followed the work of people like Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer and Douglas Axe who have shown how microscopic components in our bodies, such as proteins and DNA, do not develop in a piecemeal fashion of nonsense strings becoming functional as the evolutionists would like us to believe.

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That Hell is not what I quite imagined; it’s realer than I previously thought and people do go there. There’s a lot of stories in there of people from Hell coming back to warn people.
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I’ll try to get a copy. This topic is very important nowadays because most people don’t believe in Hell. They think everybody goes to Heaven; and that’s why Our Lady showed the children Hell when she visited Fatima.
 
Indeed, it is! A fear of Hell is a good thing. It makes us into God fearing people.

It’s probably one of the most important topics in these modern times. From the book, this part always stuck with me.
One short incidence involved a holy priest exorcising a possessed man. During the exorcism, he asked the Devil what pains he had in Hell. He answered, “An eternal fire, an eternal malediction, an eternal rage and a frightful despair at never being able to gaze upon the One who created me.”

On a similar occasion, the exorcist inquired of the Devil what his greatest pain was. He replied with a tone of indescribable despair: “Always, always! Never, never!”
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