-
Why Not Try God?
- Narrated by: Andi Hicks
- Length: 41 mins
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Buy for $3.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Publisher's summary
Famous motion picture actress Mary Pickford wrote her inspirational self-help manual Why Not Try God? in 1934, with the aid of her collaborator Adela Rogers St. Johns. For nearly eighty years, its thoughtful approach toward spirituality has encouraged and inspired her audience. Pickford's positive approach gives anyone, believer or non-believer, a rationale on which to build faith, and a path to understanding the difficulties we face in life.
It contains her most famous quote: "...this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down", along with her prescription for how to pull yourself back up again for a new beginning. Pickford starts her story with her own youthful rebellion against a God whom she thought unjust, after the death of a childhood friend. She continues with her own turnabout as an adult, including stories of people who have inspired her and the thoughts of scientists and philosophers in whose statements on religion she has found meaning and understanding.
Why Not Try God? is ultimately a cheerful work, a short, effective essay on why we should believe, and how such belief can become a positive influence that will help us meet our daily challenges and affect our lives and the lives of those around us for the better. This new edition, simply and elegantly set, contains a new afterword by film scholar and educator Anke Brouwers. Dr. Brouwers reveals the reasons that caused Mary Pickford to write Why Not Try God? and gives us a context for understanding her work that will be of interest both to fans of the actress and to the general public.
More from the same
Related to this topic
-
The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other
- A History of Mighty Companions
- By: Gary R. Renard
- Narrated by: Gary R. Renard, Gavin Leighton, Elysia Skye
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Two and a half decades ago, Ascended Master Teachers Arten and Pursah appeared to Gary Renard and held a series of conversations with him that elaborated on the teachings of two spiritual classics, The Gospel of Thomas and A Course in Miracles. Gary immortalized what he learned in the books of his best-selling series. This fourth book, a companion to the original trilogy, explores six of the lifetimes in which the incarnations of Jesus and Buddha lived together, beginning in 700 BC when they were known as Saka and Hiroji.
-
-
Your hatred of Trump, Republicans & pretty much half the country just guarantees dozens more “lifetimes”
- By Rak on 04-07-19
By: Gary R. Renard
-
Big Magic
- Creative Living Beyond Fear
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
People of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear.
-
-
Biggest Inspiration In a Long Time
- By Gillian on 09-23-15
-
The Secret to Attracting Money
- By: Joe Vitale
- Narrated by: Joe Vitale
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The potential to attract money and create abundant wealth doesn't reside in your job, your circumstances, or even the economy. It resides within you. Your mind is equipped with the natural ability to attract as much money as you want and need - at anytime, anyplace, in any financial climate, without struggle. You just have to know how to trigger it.
-
-
What's blocking your from wealth?
- By Croix on 10-18-17
By: Joe Vitale
-
50 Self-Help Classics
- By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Discover the books that have already changed the lives of millions. This award-winning, unabridged guide to the "literature of possibility" surveys 50 of the all-time classics, giving you their key ideas, insights, and applications, everything you need to know to start benefiting from these legendary works.
-
-
Surprisingly Interesting
- By Cathy Dopp on 10-15-06
-
E-Cubed
- Nine More Energy Experiments That Prove Manifesting Magic and Miracles Is Your Full-Time Gig
- By: Pam Grout
- Narrated by: Pam Grout
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
With nine new experiments and more tips on how to keep the gates of the world's largesse and abundance wide open, this audiobook is chock-full of incontrovertible evidence that the universe is just waiting for us to catch up, just waiting for us to begin using the energy that has always been available for our enjoyment and well-being.
-
-
Infinite Field of Potentiality
- By CHARLES on 11-22-15
By: Pam Grout
-
The Meaning of the Mark
- Discover the Mysterious Success Power Behind the Classic It Works
- By: Roy Herbert Jarrett
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Meaning of the Mark is a guide to more fully explain the ideas, magical methods, and mysterious symbols. It expands upon techniques and ideas only hinted at in his previous work, It Works. With its incredible combination of practical advice and metaphysical revelation, this audiobook is a must-hear for every fan of It Works. For any who wants to fully unlock the incredible powers laid out in Jarrett’s earlier work, The Meaning of the Mark is the capstone of the pyramid.
-
-
Everyone should read/listen to this!!!
- By May C. Anderson on 04-28-17
-
The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other
- A History of Mighty Companions
- By: Gary R. Renard
- Narrated by: Gary R. Renard, Gavin Leighton, Elysia Skye
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Two and a half decades ago, Ascended Master Teachers Arten and Pursah appeared to Gary Renard and held a series of conversations with him that elaborated on the teachings of two spiritual classics, The Gospel of Thomas and A Course in Miracles. Gary immortalized what he learned in the books of his best-selling series. This fourth book, a companion to the original trilogy, explores six of the lifetimes in which the incarnations of Jesus and Buddha lived together, beginning in 700 BC when they were known as Saka and Hiroji.
-
-
Your hatred of Trump, Republicans & pretty much half the country just guarantees dozens more “lifetimes”
- By Rak on 04-07-19
By: Gary R. Renard
-
Big Magic
- Creative Living Beyond Fear
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
People of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear.
-
-
Biggest Inspiration In a Long Time
- By Gillian on 09-23-15
-
The Secret to Attracting Money
- By: Joe Vitale
- Narrated by: Joe Vitale
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The potential to attract money and create abundant wealth doesn't reside in your job, your circumstances, or even the economy. It resides within you. Your mind is equipped with the natural ability to attract as much money as you want and need - at anytime, anyplace, in any financial climate, without struggle. You just have to know how to trigger it.
-
-
What's blocking your from wealth?
- By Croix on 10-18-17
By: Joe Vitale
-
50 Self-Help Classics
- By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Discover the books that have already changed the lives of millions. This award-winning, unabridged guide to the "literature of possibility" surveys 50 of the all-time classics, giving you their key ideas, insights, and applications, everything you need to know to start benefiting from these legendary works.
-
-
Surprisingly Interesting
- By Cathy Dopp on 10-15-06
-
E-Cubed
- Nine More Energy Experiments That Prove Manifesting Magic and Miracles Is Your Full-Time Gig
- By: Pam Grout
- Narrated by: Pam Grout
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
With nine new experiments and more tips on how to keep the gates of the world's largesse and abundance wide open, this audiobook is chock-full of incontrovertible evidence that the universe is just waiting for us to catch up, just waiting for us to begin using the energy that has always been available for our enjoyment and well-being.
-
-
Infinite Field of Potentiality
- By CHARLES on 11-22-15
By: Pam Grout
-
The Meaning of the Mark
- Discover the Mysterious Success Power Behind the Classic It Works
- By: Roy Herbert Jarrett
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Meaning of the Mark is a guide to more fully explain the ideas, magical methods, and mysterious symbols. It expands upon techniques and ideas only hinted at in his previous work, It Works. With its incredible combination of practical advice and metaphysical revelation, this audiobook is a must-hear for every fan of It Works. For any who wants to fully unlock the incredible powers laid out in Jarrett’s earlier work, The Meaning of the Mark is the capstone of the pyramid.
-
-
Everyone should read/listen to this!!!
- By May C. Anderson on 04-28-17
-
Walking in This World
- The Practical Art of Creativity
- By: Julia Cameron
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Walking in This World picks up where Julia Cameron's best-selling book on the creative process, The Artist's Way, left off to present readers with a second course, part two in an amazing journey toward discovering our human potential. Full of valuable new strategies and techniques for breaking through difficult creative ground, this is the "intermediate level" of the Artist's Way program.
-
-
I wish there was a zero star rating
- By Jason on 04-24-07
By: Julia Cameron
-
The Complete Conversations with God
- An Uncommon Dialogue: Books I, II & III
- By: Neale Donald Walsch
- Narrated by: Neale Donald Walsh, Edward Asner, Ellen Burstyn
- Length: 26 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The seminal trilogy of Neale Donald Walsch's ongoing dialogue with God are brought together here in one audio edition. Includes unabridged performances of Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue Book I, Book II and Book III, the best-selling of the author's works. Few modern writers have had more influence on popular thinking about God than Neale Donald Walsch. Neale Donald Walsch, together with award-winning actors Ed Asner and Ellen Burstyn, reveals a God who is loving, believable, understanding of our weaknesses, and, most important, easy to talk with.
-
-
4th Time Reading this Series in 20 years
- By Pangaia on 05-23-19
-
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To
- By: Anthony DeStefano
- Narrated by: Anthony DeStefano
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To is a guidebook on how to pray effectively. All over the world, people are shaking their heads in frustration and asking, "Why doesn't God answer me when I cry out to him?" In light of all the problems we face in life, we want to know why God is so often "silent" when we pray. Anthony DeStefano knew there had to be an answer to this mystery, so he set out to find prayers that God says "yes" to all the time.
-
-
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes to
- By Harriet on 03-26-09
-
The Inside-Out Revolution
- By: Michael Neill
- Narrated by: Michael Neill
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Would you like to experience amazing clarity, peace and freedom, even in the midst of challenging circumstances? In this ground-breaking audiobook, bestselling author Michael Neill shares an extraordinary new understanding of how life works that turns traditional psychology on its head. This revolutionary approach is built around three simple principles that explain where our feelings come from and how our experience of life can transform for the better in a matter of moments.
-
-
Real
- By Tad Davis on 05-03-16
By: Michael Neill
-
You Learn by Living
- Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
- By: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of the most beloved figures of the 20th century, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt remains a role model for a life well lived. At the age of 76, Roosevelt penned this simple guide to living a fuller life. You Learn by Living is a powerful volume of enduring common sense ideas and heartfelt values. Offering her own philosophy on living, Eleanor takes listeners on a path to compassion, confidence, maturity, civic stewardship, and more. Her keys to a fulfilling life?
-
-
Great advice
- By Jero on 09-10-20
-
Life on Earth
- By: Mike Dooley
- Narrated by: Mike Dooley
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In his best-selling books and hugely popular "Notes from the Universe" daily emails, Mike Dooley teaches that the first step in changing our lives is to understand the nature of our very presence here on earth - the truth about who we are, how we got here, and the power we wield. Ultimately, Mike teaches: we are divine, eternal creators for whom all things are possible, here by choice, and we shape all of our life's experiences through the focus of our thoughts, our words, and the actions we take.
-
-
Awesome and Life Changing
- By melody on 01-08-17
By: Mike Dooley
-
Mystical Traveler
- By: Sylvia Browne
- Narrated by: Sylvia Browne
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sylvia Browne takes us on another incredible journey . . . this time presenting information about the Mystical Traveler. She explains the difference between Mystical Travelers and Mission Life Entities (those who have a mission in life); and goes into great depth about who they are, what they do, and even how to become one!
-
-
This was ok
- By Donald on 11-07-11
By: Sylvia Browne
-
It Works, Deluxe Edition
- The Famous Little Red Book That Makes Your Dreams Come True!
- By: RHJ
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The author known by the initials RHJ put a dramatic challenge to listeners in 1926. His claim was so sensational, so audacious, so begging of argument that one immediately wants to dismiss it. But for one thing: It works. RHJ's little pamphlet, It Works, has sold more than 1.5 million copies and won the dedication of generations of readers and listeners who have purchased it by the fistful to hand out to friends.
-
-
Read it over and over till you get your Ah,Ha
- By Seers on 09-17-18
By: RHJ
-
The Art of Living
- By: Bob Proctor, Sandra Gallagher
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
With this audiobook, the listener will become a student of Bob Proctor as he teaches lessons and presents jewels of wisdom on living an extraordinary life. Listeners will marvel at Proctor's miraculous way of disseminating his decades of business wisdom into easy-to-understand parables and learn lessons on what our creative faculties are and how to use them, why we need to unlearn most of the false beliefs we've been indoctrinated with our whole lives, and how our intellects have the ability not only to put us ahead in life but also to be our biggest detriment.
-
-
Thoughts are things
- By The Kellie Kitchen on 02-01-16
By: Bob Proctor, and others
-
Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
- By: Neale Donald Walsch
- Narrated by: Neale Donald Walsch, Edward Asner, Ellen Burstyn
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Suppose you could ask God the most puzzling questions about existence, and God would provide clear, understandable answers? It happened to Neale Donald Walsch. Conversations with God is Neale Donald Walsch's account of his direct conversations with God, beginning in 1992 while Walsch was immersed in a period of deep depression. He composed a letter to God in which he vented his frustrations, and much to his surprise, even shock, God answered him.
-
-
Finally!!
- By Karie on 06-23-11
-
50 Spiritual Classics
- By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Discover the books that have already changed the lives of millions. This unabridged guide to the literature of the spirit surveys 50 of the all-time classics, giving you their key ideas, insights, and applications - everything you need to know to start benefiting from these legendary works.
-
-
useful as review or starting point
- By connie on 01-03-09
-
I Can See Clearly Now
- By: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
- Narrated by: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For many years, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer’s fans have wondered when he would write a memoir. Well, Wayne has finally done just that! However, he has written it in a way that only he can - with a remarkable take-home message for his longtime followers and new readers alike - and the result is an exciting new twist on the old format. Rather than a plain old memoir, Wayne has gathered together quantum-moment recollections.
-
-
Not seeing so clear
- By char on 03-27-14