Exercitia spiritualia

by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Aloysio R.P Bellecio

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned audience.

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

SIDDHARTHA, the handsome son of the Brahmin, the young falcon, grew up together with his friend Govinda, the Brahmin's s...

John Donne Poetry

by John Donne, John Booty

Away thou fondling motley humourist,

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, (1) saith the Lord.

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

Tao te Ching

by 老子

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...

As a man thinketh

by James Allen

The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so compreh...

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

An autobiography

by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

READER: Just at present there is a Home Rule wave passing over India.

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

Saint Francis of Assisi

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways.

Φαίδων

by Πλάτων

PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius.

Il pendolo di Foucault

by Umberto Eco

That was when I saw the pendulum.

Natural law in the spiritual world

by Henry Drummond

FOR two hundred years the scientific world has been rent with discussions upon the Origin of Life.

The great controversy

by Ellen Gould Harmon White, E. G. White

IF thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid f...