Lumen et Logos Collection
Introduction to the Devout Life
Almost all those who have written concerning the devout life have had chiefly in view persons who have altogether quitted the world; or at any rate...
The Holy Rule of St. Benedict
Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of...
The Story of a Soul: Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and Selected Letters, Poems, and Prayers
It is the old story of simplicity in God's service, of the perfect accomplishment of small recurring duties, of trustful confidence in Him who made...
Holiness of Life
Although written primarily for women living in Religion, Saint Bonaventure's treatise on Holiness of Life (De Perfectione Vitae ad Sorores) will...
The Interior Castle
While I was begging our Lord to-day to speak for me, since I knew not what to say nor how to commence this work which obedience has laid upon me, an...
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius
This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself, is considered by the Bollandists the most valuable record of the great Founder of the...
Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
The following pages were not in the first instance written to prove the divinity of the Catholic Religion, though ultimately they furnish a positive...
True Devotion to Mary
All our perfection consists in being conformed, united, and consecrated to Jesus Christ; and therefore the most perfect of all devotions is, without...
Orthodoxy
It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to...
The Imitation of Christ
“He who follows Me, walks not in darkness,” says the Lord (John 8:12). By these words of Christ we are advised to imitate His life and habits, if we...
The Everlasting Man
This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal...
An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
IT will be admitted by all Father Newman's readers, that this is the hardest work he has ever written. Hitherto it has been his habit to diversify his...
The Ball and the Cross
“The cross is on top of the ball,” said Professor Lucifer, simply. “That is surely wrong. The ball should be on top of the cross. The cross is a mere...
The Idea of a University
The view taken of a University in these Discourses is the following:—That it is a place of teaching universal knowledge. This implies that its object...
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
I must, I said, give the true key to my whole life; I must show what I am that it may be seen what I am not, and that the phantom may be extinguished...
The Story of a Soul
It is the old story of simplicity in God's service, of the perfect accomplishment of small recurring duties, of trustful confidence in Him who made...
Life of St. Anthony
Now since you asked me to give you an account of the blessed Antony's way of life, and are wishful to learn how he began the discipline, who and what...
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi
The grace of God our Saviour hath in these latter days appeared in His servant Francis unto all such as be truly humble, and lovers of holy Poverty,...
Lord of the World
I am perfectly aware that this is a terribly sensational book, and open to innumerable criticisms on that account, as well as on many others. But I...
Cur Deus Homo
I have been often and most earnestly requested by many, both personally and by letter, that I would hand down in writing the proofs of a certain...
Octavius
Octavius is one of the earliest known works of Christian apologetics. It depicts a conversation between Caecilius Natalis, a roman taking the side of...
St. Francis of Assisi
The writer may put himself in the position of the ordinary modern outsider and enquirer; as indeed the present writer is still largely and was once...
Abandonment to Divine Providence
The “Abandonment to Divine Providence” of Fr. de Caussade is a trusting, childlike, peaceful abandonment to the guidance of grace, and of the Holy...
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and...
Heretics
I for one have come to believe in going back to fundamentals. Such is the general idea of this book. I wish to deal with my most distinguished...
Treatise on the Love of God
It is not a book, like other spiritual books, treating only a section or a single element of the devout life, but it is one by which and on which the...