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008    930816s1994    nyu           000 0 eng   
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050 00 BJ1581.2|b.T426 1994 
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100 1  Templeton, John,|d1912-2008. 
245 10 Discovering the laws of life /|cJohn Marks Templeton ; 
       foreword by Norman Vincent Peale. 
260    New York :|bContinuum,|c1994. 
300    xii, 300 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520 1  "John Marks Templeton is a man of boundless erudition, 
       fathomless curiosity, and unaffected piety. His biography 
       is itself a parable for our time. An internationally 
       prominent financier whose investment groups control more 
       than $30 billion, Templeton is also a board member of the 
       American Bible Society and Princeton Theological Seminary.
       Careful stewardship of his funds enabled him, in 1971, to 
       establish the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, 
       which exceeds even the Nobel Prize in financial value. At 
       the basis of Templeton's life, thought, and philanthropy 
       is the simple conviction that 'progress in religion is 
       even more important than progress in anything else - or 
       even other things combined.' Central to progress in 
       religion is the inner life of the individual believer. Now,
       at the age of eighty-one, Templeton presents his readers, 
       friends, and admirers with the summing-up of a lifetime of
       wisdom and observation. His most important discovery is 
       that our lives are shaped by certain eternal laws. These 
       two hundred "laws of life" derive not only from the 
       experiences of a lifetime of one of the world's most 
       prominent businessmen, but also from the scriptures of the
       great spiritual traditions. Though our parents, teachers, 
       church, or synagogue teach us these laws, we also must 
       discover them ourselves through experience, both joyful 
       and painful. Nor do we ever stop learning them. Not so 
       coincidentally, these forty steps to spiritual growth also
       mirror the length of both the average school year and Lent,
       and can be used devotionally as a part of regular 
       spiritual practice."--Jacket. 
650  0 Conduct of life|xQuotations, maxims, etc. 
650  0 Spiritual life|xQuotations, maxims, etc. 
650  0 Devotional calendars. 
650  7 Conduct of life.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00874563 
650  7 Devotional calendars.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00892010 
650  7 Spiritual life.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01130100 
655  7 Quotations.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423792 
655  7 Devotional calendars.|2lcgft 
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