- Anonymous – The Cloud of Unknowing (full text)
- Anonymous – The Way of a Pilgrim (limited preview)
- St. Anselm – Proslogion (full text), Monologion (full text), Meditations & Prayers (full text)
- St. Athanasius - St. Antony of the Desert (full text)
- St. Augustine of Hippo - Confessions (full text), City of God (full text), Various Essays (full text)
- Richard Baxter – Christian Directory (full text), The Saints' Everlasting Rest (full text)
- Saint Benedict of Nursia – Rule for Monks (full text)
- St. Bonaventure – The Soul’s Journey into God (limited preview), The Tree of Life (no preview available), The Life of Christ (full text), The Life of St. Francis (full text)
- John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion (full text); Commentary on John (full text): Vol. 1, Vol. 2;
- John Cassian – The Conferences (full text), The Institutes (full text)
- G.K. Chesterton - Heretics (full text), Orthodoxy (full text)
- John Climacus – The Ladder of Divine Ascent (limited preview)
- Jean-Pierre de Caussade – Abandonment to Divine Providence (full text)
- Jonathan Edwards – Religious Affections (full text), Freedom of the Will (full text), Unpublished Essay on the Trinity (full text), Select Sermons (full text), Treatise on Grace (full text), Works of Jonathan Edwards (V.1) (full text), Works of Jonathan Edwards (V.2) (full text)
- St. Francis of Assisi – The Little Flowers of St. Francis (full text)
- Jeanne Guyon – Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ (no preview available)
- Walter Hilton – The Scale of Perfection (full text)
- St. Ignatius of Loyola – Spiritual Exercises (full text)
- St. Isidore of Seville – Etymologies (limited preview)
- St. John of the Cross – Dark Night of the Soul (full text), Ascent of Mount Carmel (full text), Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom of Christ (full text)
- Julian of Norwich – Revelations of Divine Love (full text), Showings (limited preview)
- Thomas R. Kelly – A Testament of Devotion (no preview available)
- Brother Lawrence - The Practice of the Presence of God (full text)
- C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity (limited preview), Miracles (limited preview), The Weight of Glory (limited preview), The Four Loves (limited preview), The Great Divorce (limited preview), The Screwtape Letters (limited preview), Perelandra (limited preview), The Chronicles of Narnia (limited preview)
- Martin Luther – Table Talk (full text), Sermons (full text), Bondage of the Will (full text)
- John Owen – Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers (full text), Of Temptation (full text), Indwelling Sin (limited preview),
- St. Francis de Sales – Introduction to the Devout Life (full text), Treatise on the Love of God (full text)
- Lorenzo Scupoli – Spiritual Combat (full text)
- Johannes Tauler - Sermons (full text)
- Teresa of Avila – Interior Castle (full text)
- Thomas a Kempis - The Imitation of Christ (full text)
- St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica (full text) : Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6, Vol. 7, Vol. 8, Vol. 9, Vol. 10
- A.W. Tozer – The Pursuit of God (limited preview)
- John Wesley – Sermons (full text), A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (full text)
- Desert Father Collections – The Desert Fathers (limited preview), Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Lives of the Desert Fathers
- History of the Christian Church – Vol. 1 (full text), Vol. 2 (full text), Vol. 3 (full text), Vol. 4 (full text), Vol. 5(1) (full text), Vol. 5(2) (full text), Vol. 6 (full text), Vol. 7 (full text)
Library of Spiritual Classics
“Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance.”
– Proverb 1:5
Nourish your spiritual life by reading and meditating upon some of the writings of wisdom of the ancient church.
Click on a book title to read a preview or the entire text.
– Proverb 1:5
Nourish your spiritual life by reading and meditating upon some of the writings of wisdom of the ancient church.
Click on a book title to read a preview or the entire text.