Product Description: From the time she was a young child, Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) sought God ceaselessly in both contemplation and action. By the time she was twenty-one, she had experienced her mystical marriage to Christ, and she had thrown herself tirelessly into ministering to the poor and the sick...read more

Product Description: Boundless Faith: Early American Women's Captivity Narratives contains the stories of four women: Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, and the accounts of Hannah Dustan, Elizabeth Hanson, and Sarah Wakefield.

Product Description: In the fourth century, thousands of men and women fled into the Egyptian desert seeking to recapture the passion of the earliest Christians through lives of prayer and solitude.As records of the wisdom and purity of the "desert fathers and mothers" spread through the Roman Empire, Christians streamed to the caves of these desert hermits, seeking counsel on the interior life...read more

Product Description: George Herbert, a priest at Salisbury Cathedral in seventeenth-century England, is known as the author of the most famous religious poem in the English language, The Temple. This collection contains a mild modernization of Herbert's complete poems. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Possibly the most influential of all English poets, John Donne has left an indelible imprint on the literary world. Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls takes its title from Donne's renowned Meditation 17, and the title of John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud is borrowed from one of Donne's holy sonnets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the passionate poetry of a bride to her bridegroom, thirteenth-century German mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg recorded thirty years of her most intimate conversations with God. The selections in this edition offer a glimpse into Mechthild's vision of God and her constant longing to be in his heart...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Romancing God contains two of Ramn Lull's most accessible mystical works, The Art of Contemplation, an attainable guide to devotions through the virtues of God; and The Book of the Lover and the Beloved, 365 short verses of conversation between the soul and God...read more