The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery Audiobook

Quotes

• "David Benner is a keen student of both God and human personhood. It is a rare kind of book that combines wisdom about faith and understanding about the self. This is that kind of book." John Ortberg, author and pastor

• “David Benner has shown us where life experience, personal insight, and prayer meet: in God. I highly recommend it, especially for people beginning in spiritual direction.”

  — David I. Donovan, New England Province of the Society of Jesus

• “Wise, compassionate, and accessible…The author draws on his professional experience as a psychologist and his own lifelong vocation as a Christian. The result is a book that felicitously weaves together the insights of psychology and Christian spirituality.”

  — Margaret Guenther, author of Holy Listening

• “Drawing from his wisdom as a psychotherapist and spiritual director, insights from Scripture, and his own self and God discoveries, David gently describes the great disparity between the false self that most of us have become and the self-in-Christ that we are intended to be. I have never been so challenged and warmly inspired to receive the gift of being my true self.”

  — Gary W. Moon, Vice President for Spiritual Development and Professor, Psychological Studies Institute

• “David Benner guides us to a place of wisdom and devotion with this beautiful book. With empathy and insight he demonstrates that the two great tasks of life—knowing God and knowing ourselves—converge into a single adventure as we are drawn into the arms of our loving God.”

  — Mark R. McMinn, author of Why Sin Matters