Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life, and How It Can Transform Your Own
10 best books like Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life, and How It Can Transform Your Own (Joseph Langford): Ramakrishna and His Disciples, The Joyful Beggar: St. Francis of Assisi, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Therese of Lisieux, The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints, Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue (Classics of Western Spirituality), Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage, Miracle Detective, Autobiography of Madame Guyon
Ramakrishna and His Disciples
| Author | Christopher Isherwood |
This book forms my first comprehensive introduction to Sri Ramakrishna.
It presents the story of an era where the strength of a man and his stature in society was not measured by his materialistic views and wealth but by the simplicity of his life, his devotion towards fellow beings and his spiritual...
The Joyful Beggar: St. Francis of Assisi
| Author | Louis de Wohl |
| ISBN | 0898708141 |
In this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant's son who might have been right-hand man to a king … and who became instead the most beloved of all saints. Set against the tempestuous background of 13th Century Italy and Egypt,...
I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Therese of Lisieux
| Author | Jean C.J. d'Elbée |
| ISBN | 1928832288 |
A friend loaned Fr. d'Elbee's treasure of a book to me as an introduction to the spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux. This book presents ten retreat conferences based loosely on the spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux, and to a lesser extent, of St. John Vianney, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, and...
The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints
| Author | Ralph Martin |
| ISBN | 1931018367 |
Winner: Honorable Mention from the Catholic Press Association Ralph Martin, drawing upon the teaching of seven acknowledged "Spiritual Doctors" of the Church, presents an indepth study of the journey to God. This book provides encouragement and direction for the pilgrim who desires to know, love,...
Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue (Classics of Western Spirituality)
| Author | Catherine of Siena |
| ISBN | 0809122332 |
Second only to Divine Mercy in My Soul, this book had the greatest impact on my spiritual reformation.
This opening line, God speaking to St. Catherine, captured my heart and soul:
"Open the eye of your intellect, and gaze into Me, and you shall see the beauty of My rational creature."
It...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 1580511430 |
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
| Author | Irina Tweedie |
| ISBN | 0963457454 |
A friend lent me this book the past week. Sometimes with spiritual books I like to just open them up to a random page and see if the book speaks to me. That’s what I did with this book the past week.
There are so many beautiful paths in the world, and this book reminds me of the commonalities between...
| Author | Scott Cairns |
| ISBN | 0060843225 |
While walking on the beach with his Labrador, poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis. A fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty, midlife crises are usually manifested in the form of sports cars and younger women; not so for this Baptist turned...
| Author | Randall Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0751530220 |
In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young Mexican woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After being met with skepticism from the local parish, the Catholic diocese officially placed the matter "under investigation."...
| Author | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon |
| ISBN | 1595479260 |
Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually despondent and plagued by ignorance. Regardless of these tormenting conditions, she rose to the inimitability...
Nikolai Grozni was a music prodigy, a jazz pianist training at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, when suddenly he decided to transform his life. He moved to India to become a Buddhist monk: shaving his head, learning Tibetan, and donning long traditional robes. In the Himalayas, living...
| Author | Shirley du Boulay |
| ISBN | 0974240524 |
This intelligent, balanced portrait of an irreverent, intense, and fiery Renaissance woman and her times includes moving excerpts from her letters and sublime spiritual writings. Her unconventional, progressive views on prayer and worship, her outstanding administrative and literary talents,...
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India
| Author | Jonah Blank |
| ISBN | 0802137334 |
The three-thousand-year-old epic Ramayana chronicles Lord Rama's physical voyage from one end of the Indian subcontinent to the other and his spiritual voyage from Man to God. In Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, anthropologist and journalist Jonah Blank gives a new perspective to this Hindu classic...
Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding
| Author | Heather King |
| ISBN | 0670018635 |
An NPR commentator’s story of an unlikely epiphany and the healing power of faith
After years of sleeping around, working as a waitress, and suffering booze- induced blackouts, Heather King settled into sobriety, marriage, and a financially lucrative but unfulfilling career in a Beverly...
| Author | Josemaría Escrivá |
| ISBN | 0933932049 |
Christ Is Passing By collects 18 homilies given by St. Josemaria between 1951 and 1971, on the occasion of various liturgical feast days. The guiding thread is divine filiation, and the universal call to holiness entailed by this reality. Other important themes are the sanctification of ordinary...
Something Beautiful for God
| Author | Malcolm Muggeridge |
| ISBN | 0060660430 |
In celebration of Mother Teresa's beatification in October of 2003, HarperOne is proud to present a new edition of the classic work that introduced Mother Teresa to the Western world. Something Beautiful for God interprets her life through her conversations with Malcolm Muggeridge, the quintessential...
The Incorruptibles: A Study of Incorruption in the Bodies of Various Saints and Beati
| Author | Joan Carroll Cruz |
| ISBN | 0895550660 |
Continuously popular since it first appeared in 1977, TheIncorruptibles remains the acknowledged classic on the bodies of saints that did not undergo decomposition after death. Many remained fresh and flexible for years, or even centuries. After explaining both natural and artificial mummification,...
My Life on the Rock: A Rebel Returns to the Catholic Faith (Rev)
| Author | Jeff Cavins |
| ISBN | 0965922839 |
My Life on the Rock is the dramatic, emotional and humorous conversion story of Jeff Cavins, one of the brightest new teachers and converts to come into the Catholic Church in recent years. Jeff s story is one of rebellion and homecoming. He rebelled against his father and his faith - and then returned...
Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way
| Author | John Paul II |
| ISBN | 0446577812 |
An inspirational memoir from the recently canonized Pope Saint John Paul II Following the success of the international bestseller Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II provides the world with a glimpse into his past in RISE, LET US BE ON OUR WAY. Chronicling the years he spent as a bishop and...
The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
| Author | Peter Kreeft |
| ISBN | 1586170171 |
God's love is the subject of Peter Kreeft's imaginative and thoughtful book (a revised and updated version of his book Knowing the Truth of God's Love). With unusual clarity, Kreeft points out that the man or woman who begins to glimpse the God who is Creator, Redeemer, and Lover of our souls, will never...
Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man
| Author | Gopi Krishna |
| ISBN | 1570622809 |
Coiled like a snake at the base of the spine, kundalini is the spiritual force that lies dormant in every human being. Once awakened, often through meditation and yoga practices, it rises up the spine and finds expression in the form of spiritual knowledge, mystical vision, psychic powers, and ultimately,...
John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father
| Author | Peggy Noonan |
| ISBN | 0143037943 |
From New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan comes "a beautifully written testimony about . . . the most historically recognized pope" (Library Journal)
With such accla imed books as When Character Was King, Peggy Noonan has become one of our most eloquent and respected commentators....
33 Days to Merciful Love: A Do-It-Yourself Retreat in Preparation for Divine Mercy Consecration
| Author | Michael Gaitley |
| ISBN | 1596143452 |
33 Days to Merciful Love is the 5th book I’ve read by Father Michael Gaitley. Anyone familiar with his other best-seller, 33 Days to Morning Glory, understands the concept of consecrating (being made holy) oneself to Jesus, i.e., undertaking a period of spiritual prayer, reading, etc., for the purpose...
Mother Teresa of Calcutta: A Personal Portrait: 50 Inspiring Stories Never Before Told
| Author | Leo Maasburg |
| ISBN | 1586175556 |
Mother Teresa's life sounds like a legend. The Albanian girl who entered an Irish order to go to India as a missionary and became an "Angel of the Poor" for countless people. She was greatly revered by Christians as well as Muslims, Hindus and unbelievers, as she brought the message of Christian love for...
The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God
| Author | George Weigel |
| ISBN | 0465092667 |
Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist “cube” of the Great Arch of La Défense...
