Meditations

Here are entered collections of thoughts on spiritual truths for use in meditation. Works on mental prayer as a method of promoting the spiritual life are entered under Meditation.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Devotional literature

• Meditations -- Early works to 1800
• Church year meditations
• Spiritual exercises
• Abraham (Biblical patriarch) -- Meditations
• Advent -- Meditations
• Bible -- Meditations
• Bible. Genesis XI, 27-XXV, 8 -- Meditations
• Bible. Hebrews -- Meditations
• Bible. Job -- Meditations
• Bible. John XV, 1-16 -- Meditations
• Bible. Psalms -- Meditations
• Bible. Psalms XXIII -- Meditations
• Christian life -- Meditations
• Christmas -- Meditations
• Diseases -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Meditations
• Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Meditations
• Holiness -- Meditations
• Jesus Christ -- Meditations
• Lent -- Meditations
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Meditations
• Monastic and religious life of women -- Meditations
• Spiritual life -- Meditations
• Stations of the Cross -- Meditations
• Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Meditations

• Meditations, Christian

• Book of Meditations, by James Allen, ed. by Lily L. Allen (HTML at jamesallenlibrary.com)
• The Calendar of the Soul, by Rudolf Steiner, trans. by Ruth Pusch and Hans Pusch (HTML at elib.com)
• Celebrate Life: A Book of Meditations, by Paul B. Zacharias (PDF with commentary at swedenborg.org)
• Gems from the East: A Birthday Book of Precepts and Axioms, ed. by H. P. Blavatsky (HTML at TUP)
• The Goal is Won, by Sri Chinmoy (HTML at srichinmoylibrary.com)
• The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, trans. by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton (HTML at CCEL)
• The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, trans. by William Benham
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• The Imitation of Christ (Mt. Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, ca. 1947), by Thomas à Kempis, ed. by Wilfrid Raynal, trans. by Richard Whitford, illust. by Valenti Angelo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Imitation of Christ: Four Books (London: John C. Nimmo, 1886), by Thomas à Kempis, trans. by William Benham, illust. by Léopold Flameng and Ch. Waltner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Green Pastures: Daily Readings for Every Day in the Year, by J. R. Miller (HTML at jr-miller.com)
• Introduction to the Devout Life, by Saint Francis de Sales (HTML at CCEL)
• The Layman's Breviary: or Meditations for Every Day in the Year, by Leopold Schefer, trans. by Charles Timothy Brooks (page images at MOA)
• Meditations and Devotions of the Late Cardinal Newman (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by John Henry Newman, ed. by W. P. Neville (HTML at newmanreader.org)
• Meditations: Food For The Soul, by Sri Chinmoy (HTML at srichinmoylibrary.com)
• Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, (Widow of the late James W. Stewart), Now Matron of the Freedman's Hospital, and Presented in 1832 to the First African Baptist Church and Society of Boston, Mass. (reprint, 1879), by Maria W. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morning and Evening Thoughts, by James Allen (HTML at jamesallenlibrary.com)
• My Lord's Secrets Revealed, by Sri Chinmoy (HTML at srichinmoylibrary.com)
• The Near and the Heavenly Horizons (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1865), by Valérie Boissier de Gasparin (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Night Thoughts, by Martin Israel (HTML at u-net.com)
• Now Is Eternity: Comfort and Wisdom for Difficult Hours, by Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Blumhardt (PDF with commentary at plough.com)
• Of The Imitation of Christ: Four Books ('Edith Cavell' edition, with facsimiles of her annotations), by Thomas à Kempis, contrib. by Herbert Edward Ryle and Edith Cavell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Pastor Prescribes, by Joe Damazo (HTML at crcbermuda.com)
• Songs of the Soul, by Sri Chinmoy (HTML at srichinmoylibrary.com)
• The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing (1917), by Mary Webb (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• St. Anselm's Book of Meditations and Prayers (London: Burns and Oates, 1872), by Saint Anselm (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Supreme and His Four Children: Five Spiritual Dictionaries, by Sri Chinmoy (HTML at srichinmoylibrary.com)
• To Be Near Unto God (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans-Sevensma Co., 1918), by Abraham Kuyper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at ptsem.edu
• Wisdom of the Sadhu: Teachings of Sundar Singh, by Sundar Singh, ed. by Kim Comer (PDF with commentary at plough.com)
• The Writings of John Bradford, M.A., Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge and Prebendary of St. Paul's, Martyr, 1555 (2 volumes; Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1848-1853), by John Bradford, ed. by Aubrey Townsend
  • Volume I (Sermons, Meditations, Examinations, Etc.): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (Letters, Treatises, Remains): multiple formats at Google
• Writings of the Rev. John Bradford, by John Bradford (illustrated HTML at CCEL)

• The Way of Perfection, by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Christian Retirement: or, Spiritual Exercises of the Heart (second edition, 1827), by Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade (page images at Google)
• Falun Gong (fourth edition, 2001), by Li Hongzhi (HTML at falundafa.org)
• Spiritual Exercises, by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, trans. by Elder Mullan
  • multiple formats at CCEL
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• Zhuan Falun, by Li Hongzhi (HTML at falundafa.org)

• Man of Faith: Learning From the Life of Abraham, by Ray C. Stedman (HTML at raystedman.org)

• When the Time Was Fulfilled: Christmas Meditations (c2007), by Eberhard Arnold, Christoph Blumhardt, and Alfred Delp (multiple formats with commentary at plough.com)

• Morning and Evening, by C. H. Spurgeon (HTML at CCEL)

• Man of Faith: Learning From the Life of Abraham, by Ray C. Stedman (HTML at raystedman.org)

• How to Live What You Believe: A Life-Related Study in Hebrews, by Ray C. Stedman (HTML at raystedman.org)

• Expository Studies in Job: Behind Suffering, by Ray C. Stedman (HTML at raystedman.org)

• The True Vine: Meditations for a Month on John XV:1-16, by Andrew Murray (HTML at CCEL)

• A Light on the Path: An Exploration of Integrity through the Psalms, by Martin Israel (HTML at u-net.com)

• By the Still Waters: A Meditation on the Twenty-Third Psalm, by J. R. Miller (HTML at jr-miller.com)

• Fountains and Rivers of Holiness, by Wayne C. Aman (PDF at nnu.edu)

• When the Time Was Fulfilled: Christmas Meditations (c2007), by Eberhard Arnold, Christoph Blumhardt, and Alfred Delp (multiple formats with commentary at plough.com)

• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, by John Donne (HTML at CCEL)

• Thy Will Be Done: Sickness, Faith, and the God Who Heals (c2011), by Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Blumhardt (multiple formats with commentary at plough.com)

• Fountains and Rivers of Holiness, by Wayne C. Aman (PDF at nnu.edu)

• For Us: Meditations on the Seven Words From the Cross (c1924), by Archibald Lang Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Third Parte of the Meditations of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ our Saviour (1599), by Vincenzo Bruno (PDF at cimmay.com)

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