The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection (The Ascetical Works, #3)
By: Alfonso María de Liguori
4.57
Format: 578 pages, Paperback
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori says: “This book, though small, has cost me a great deal of labor. I re…
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1. The Way of Perfection (Image Classics)
By: Teresa de Ávila
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Of all of Teresa of Avila's works, The Way of Perfection is the most easily understood. Written at … read more
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"Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible."-Teresa de Ávila, The Way of Perfection (Image Classics)
"Aunque me canse, aunque no pueda, aunque reviente, aunque me muera."-Teresa de Ávila, The Way of Perfection (Image Classics)
"A pobreza é um bem que encerra todos os bens do mundo. É uma grande soberania; confirmo que se assenhoreia de todos os bens quem nenhum caso faz de os deixar."-Teresa de Ávila, The Way of Perfection (Image Classics)
"Humility cannot exist without love, and love cannot exist without humility. It is impossible for these virtues to exist except where there is great detachment from all created things."-Teresa de Ávila, The Way of Perfection (Image Classics)
2. The Perennial Philosophy
By: Aldous Huxley
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as "The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reali… read more
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"Organized and balanced disunity is the necessary condition of liberty."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
"We cannot hope to utter anything worth saying, unless we read and inwardly digest the utterances of our betters."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
"In other words, the highest form of the love of God is an immediate spiritual intuition, by which 'knower, known and knowledge are made one."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
3. Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
By: Pope Benedict XVI
4.51
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The momentous third and final volume in the Pope’s international bestselling Jesus of Nazareth seri… read more
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"En el humilde pesebre de la gruta de Belén está ya este esplendor cósmico: aquí ha venido entre nosotros el verdadero primogénito del universo."-Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
"El evangelista (Lc 2,13-14) dice que los ángeles «hablan». Pero para los cristianos estuvo claro desde el principio que el hablar de los ángeles es un cantar, en el que se hace presente de modo palpa…"-Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
"Just as the genealogies break off at the end, because Jesus was not begotten by St. Joseph, but was truly born of the Holy Spirit from the Virgin Mary, so it now can be said of us that our true "gene…"-Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
"Gracia y libertad se compenetran recíprocamente, y no podemos expresar la acción de una sobre la otra mediante fórmulas claras. Es verdad que no podríamos amar si antes no hubiésemos sido amados por …"-Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
4. The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
By: Antonin Sertillanges
4.41
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
"Fr. Sertillanges's teachings are as timeless as any truths which describe the genuine nature of th… read more
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"Genius simplifies things"-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
"Truth serves only its slaves."-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
"Reason ambitions only a world; faith gives it infinity."-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
"The good is the brother of the true; it will help its brother."-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
5. True Devotion to Mary
By: Louis de Montfort , Louis-Marie Grignion de Monfort
4.56
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Considered the greatest single book on Mary ever written, this classic shows the way to Jesus throu… read more
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"When Mary has struck her roots in a soul, she produces there marvels of grace, which she alone can produce, because she alone is the fruitful Virgin who never has had, and never will have, her equal …"-Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary
"it has always been remarked that those who wear the outward look of reprobation, like impious heretics and proud worldlings, hate or despise the Hail Mary or the Rosary. Heretics still learn and say …"-Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary
"Mary has produced, together with the Holy Ghost the greatest thing which has been or ever will be - a God-Man; and she will consequently produce the greatest saints that there will be in the end of t…"-Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary
6. Open Letter to Confused Catholics
By: Marcel Lefebvre
4.52
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
A popular study of the crisis in the Church written for all to understand. Covers the Mass, Sacrame… read more
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"God does not punish, just as the Church no longer condemns, except those who stay faithful to Tradition. (p. 61)"-Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics
"From such an extravegent summary, we can draw only one conclusion: either we must condemn the Second Vatican Council which authorized it, or we must condemn the Council of Trent and all the Popes who…"-Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics
"This is why I persist, and if you wish to know the real reason for my persistence, it is this. At the hour of my death, when Our Lord asks me: "What have you done with your episcopate, what have you …"-Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics
7. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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8. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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9. Hildegarde de Bingen
By: Régine Pernoud , Paul Duggan
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Benedictine cloistered nun visited by visions expressed in the beautiful illuminated manuscripts … read more
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10. Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul
By: Maria Faustyna Kowalska
3.94
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
This bestselling book that birthed the Divine Mercy movement, one of the fastest growing movements … read more
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11. The Way
By: Josemaría Escrivá
4.53
Format: 122 pages,
The strength, the attraction of The Way is largely due to the fact that it is based on real, living… read more
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12. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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13. In the School of the Holy Spirit
By: Jacques Philippe , None
4.64
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A renowned spiritual director unveils the Master of the interior life. In the prayer lives of many … read more
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14. Catherine of Siena
By: Sigrid Undset
3.50
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Sigrid Undset's Catherine of Siena is critically acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this w… read more
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15. Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
By: Kimberly Hahn , Scott Hahn , Peter Kreeft
4.40
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly trav… read more
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16. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
17. The Life of St. Anthony
By: E.A. Wallis Budge , Athanasius of Alexandria
3.98
Format: 212 pages,
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18. Interior Castle
By: Teresa de Ávila
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A cornerstone book on mystical theology, Interior Castledescribes the seven stages of union with Go… read more
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19. The Spiritual Combat
By: None , Lorenzo Scupoli , None , None
3.54
Format: 317 pages,
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20. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
21. The Secret Of The Rosary
By: Louis de Montfort , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Canon William says of De Montfort's book, The Secret of the Rosary- "It goes far beyond mere resear… read more
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22. A Thousand Ships
By: Natalie Haynes
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more
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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
23. The Passion of Christ Through the Eyes of Mary
By: Anselm of Canterbury
4.52
Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition
“As I stood at the foot of the cross, this pure white garment became saturated with the streams of … read more
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24. The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection (The Ascetical Works, #3)
By: Alfonso María de Liguori
4.57
Format: 578 pages, Paperback
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori says: “This book, though small, has cost me a great deal of labor. I re… read more
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25. Catechism of the Catholic Church: Trent Edition
By: Catholic Church
4.63
Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition
Centuries before the Catechism of the Catholic Church was published in 1992, encouraged by the Coun… read more
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"God is to be loved above all things, and whatever separates us from God is therefore to be hated above all things."-Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Trent Edition
" The Laity Prohibited To Touch The Sacred Vessels To safeguard in every possible way the dignity of so august a Sacrament, not only is the power of its administration entrusted exclusively to pries…"-Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Trent Edition
"Finally the faithful are to admonished to acquiesce in the simple and absolute will of God. Let him, who thinks that he occupies a place in society inferior to his desserts, bear his lot with patient…"-Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Trent Edition
26. Humility and the Elevation of the Mind to God
By: Thomas à Kempis
4.30
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
This classic work from Thomas à Kempis, author of The Imitation of Christ , is now available in Eng… read more
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27. The Hidden Treasure: Holy Mass
By: Leonard of Port Maurice
4.45
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
This book describes the great spiritual power of the Mass, how it holds back the wrath of God, its … read more
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28. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
By: Jean Croiset
4.56
Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition
THE deep and extraordinary interest taken by so many, in the devotion to the Sacred Heart of our Lo… read more
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"The reason why the visit to the Blessed Sacrament, the august Sacrifice of our Altars, and Holy Communion, are spoken of at greater length, is, because, of all exercises of piety, there are none whic…"-Jean Croiset, Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
29. A Journey With Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment
By: Paul Murray
4.33
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
The Book of Jonah, although a work of only two pages long, has made an extraordinary impact on the … read more
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30. A Conquista das Virtudes
By: Francisco Faus
4.63
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
O valor de um homem, de uma mulher, mede-se pela solidez e qualidade das suas virtudes, que são a e… read more
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31. A Preguiça
By: Francisco Faus
4.59
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
"A preguiça? Um defeito simpático! E até... inofensivo". Não é bem assim. Quando se considera donde… read more
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