{"product_id":"2940016289199","title":"Quiet Talks on Personal Problems","description":"Many volumes of \"Quiet Talks\" were written by this author and they have been enthusiastically received. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey certainly have a message for our day. In his discussion of self-mastery there appears to be a paragraph of the author's autobiography touching how he came to seek the quiet mood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The earth has grown noisy, man has become noisy, God is quiet. To a man absorbed in Christian activity, rushing, pushing, with nerves on tension and blood boiling, who wearily turned to God in prayer, there came one day into the inner ear, as he was on bent knees, a voice speaking with great softness and equally great clearness: 'Study to be quiet.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt brought a great hush into his spirit; in the following days it became a veritable sheet-anchor, holding the bark steady in many a storm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe problems treated are of Sin, Doubt, Ambition, Self-mastery, Pain, Guidance, the Church and Questioned Things.. They are very unequal in merit and there is nothing essentially new for one's thought on these subjects; but the author's manner of treatment is unique and striking and the moral ideal he sets for us is the highest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen one reads a book he should be on the lookout for the good and there is much that is wholesome and stimulating here. Yet one is not a little annoyed by his continually ringing the changes on phrases and clauses like these: \"A bit of soft quiet prayer together,\" \"say it very softly and reverently,\" \"better hold very quiet and still,\" as though he were speaking to a spoiled child.","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101181165808,"sku":"2940016289199","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016289199_p0.jpg?v=1763632313","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016289199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}