"By perseverance the snail reached the ark." — Charles Spurgeon, John Ploughman's Talk The Victorian pastor of London's Metropolitan Tabernacle, converted in a snowstorm at fifteen, whose sermons crossed oceans in his lifetime and are read to this day. The complete life is read aloud in ...

"His name is John Wesley, and in a few minutes his heart is going to catch fire." — John Wesley, The World His Parish [NO AUDIO YET] The Oxford priest whose heart was strangely warmed, who rode a quarter of a million miles to preach in fields and market squares, and declared the world his p...

"Here, she believed, was the answer beginning to arrive." — Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, The Little Way [NO AUDIO YET] A Carmelite of Lisieux who died at twenty-four, whose Little Way of trust and small deeds of love made her a Doctor of the Church and the world's beloved Little Flower. T...

"Spurgeon had just begun to pray when the panic started at the rear." — Charles Spurgeon, The Prince of Preachers [NO AUDIO YET] The Victorian pastor of London's Metropolitan Tabernacle, converted in a snowstorm at fifteen, whose sermons crossed oceans in his lifetime and are read to this d...

"Within days of the last refugee's departure, a typhoon finally struck the island, leveling the abandoned camp — a final, violent punctuation mark on the refugees' long exile." — Seraphim Rose, The Hollow and the Holy An American seeker who found the ancient Orthodox faith and, from a Calif...

"The parts she had left out." — Saint Padre Pio, The Wounds That Healed the World A Capuchin friar of southern Italy who bore the wounds of Christ for fifty years and spent his life in the confessional, drawing countless souls back to God. The complete life is read aloud in full, Wounds ...

"He put his hand on it." — Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bishop, Wonderworker, Father of the Poor [NO AUDIO YET] The bishop of Myra, wonderworker and secret giver of gifts, defender of the wronged and father of the poor, beloved and honored in East and West alike. The complete life is read alo...

"This was the discipline of a lifetime: to be flooded with the Living Light and to walk through a monastery kitchen as though nothing at all were happening." — Saint Hildegard of Bingen, The Living Light [NO AUDIO YET] A Benedictine abbess of the Rhine, visionary, healer, and composer, who ...

"And because he owned nothing, everything in creation belonged to him the way a brother belongs to a brother — not by deed of purchase, but by bond of blood." — Saint Francis of Assisi, The Poor Man of Assisi [NO AUDIO YET] The merchant's son of Assisi who embraced Lady Poverty, preached to...

"It took Betsie's clear eye to see why: the fleas that overran that barracks kept even the guards out." — Corrie ten Boom, Tante Corrie: A Life Hidden in God [NO AUDIO YET] A Dutch watchmaker's daughter who hid the hunted behind a false wall, survived Ravensbrück, and carried one message to...

"That sentence, spoken by a dying stranger to a woman who had known him for less than a day, is as close as anything to the whole purpose of Nirmal Hriday laid bare." — Saint Teresa of Calcutta, A Light in the Darkness [NO AUDIO YET] The saint of the gutters of Calcutta, who saw Christ in t...

"And the cloak began to spread." — Saint Brigid of Kildare, The Church of the Oak The abbess of Kildare, Mary of the Gael, whose perpetual flame burned for a thousand years and whose boundless charity to the poor made her Ireland's beloved mother-saint. The complete life is read aloud in...

"He meant it the way Peter must have meant it, standing on the shore of Galilee, dropping the nets that were his whole livelihood to follow a man he had known for perhaps an afternoon." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of a Life [NO AUDIO YET] A pastor and theologian who taught the cost of d...

"It did not eat." — Saint Benedict, The God Who Waits in Caves The father of Western monasticism, whose Rule of prayer and work, ora et labora, shaped the life of Europe for fifteen centuries. The complete life is read aloud in full, The Patriarch of the West — a reverent, book-length bi...

"What they found did not match what they knew, and they said so, plainly, to the churchmen who came later to record it under oath." — Saint Teresa of Avila, The Seventh Mansion A Carmelite nun and mystic of Spain who reformed her order and mapped the soul's ascent to God in the seven mansio...

"Those three walls held." — Saint Augustine of Hippo, The Restless Heart [NO AUDIO YET] The brilliant wanderer of Hippo whose restless heart found its rest in God, and whose Confessions and City of God have taught the Church the ways of grace for sixteen centuries. The complete life is r...

"Suddenly every vain hope became worthless to me, and with an incredible warmth of heart I yearned for an immortality of wisdom." — Saint Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, Book III The brilliant wanderer of Hippo whose restless heart found its rest in God, and whose Confessions and City of G...

"Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else." — Charles Spurgeon, A Defence of Calvinism The Victorian pastor of London's Metropolitan Tabernacle, converted in a snowstorm at fifteen, whose sermons crossed oceans in his lifetime and are read to this day. The complete life is read aloud in...

"A brand plucked from a burning house grew up to spend his whole life trying to make sure no one else was left standing at their own window, waiting for hands that might not come." — John Wesley, Go On to Perfection The Oxford priest whose heart was strangely warmed, who rode a quarter of a...

"Now the hour had come, and she looked, one of them would later say, not like a woman being defeated but like a woman being received." — Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, The Little Way [NO AUDIO YET] A Carmelite of Lisieux who died at twenty-four, whose Little Way of trust and small deeds of lov...

"You have nothing to do but to look and live."" — Charles Spurgeon, The Prince of Preachers [NO AUDIO YET] The Victorian pastor of London's Metropolitan Tabernacle, converted in a snowstorm at fifteen, whose sermons crossed oceans in his lifetime and are read to this day. The complete li...

"He had." — Seraphim Rose, It Is Later Than You Think An American seeker who found the ancient Orthodox faith and, from a Californian wilderness, became a monk and a teacher for the modern age. The complete life is read aloud in full, The Monk of Platina — a reverent, book-length biograp...

"He shouts it into the wind, not as ritual but as the last thing he has left to shout: *Nicholas, servant of God, if what they say of you is true, help us now.*" — Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bishop, Wonderworker, Father of the Poor [NO AUDIO YET] The bishop of Myra, wonderworker and secret giv...

"The prelates of Mainz did not see it that way." — Saint Hildegard of Bingen, The Living Light [NO AUDIO YET] A Benedictine abbess of the Rhine, visionary, healer, and composer, who saw the Living Light and wrote what she was shown, honored now as a Doctor of the Church. The complete lif...

"The visible signature of a love so total that it had, at last, been allowed to show itself in his skin." — Saint Francis of Assisi, The Poor Man of Assisi [NO AUDIO YET] The merchant's son of Assisi who embraced Lady Poverty, preached to the birds, and bore the wounds of Christ, the little...

""To think that, as you say, He has washed my sins away!"" — Corrie ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord A Dutch watchmaker's daughter who hid the hunted behind a false wall, survived Ravensbrück, and carried one message to the world: there is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still. ...

"The cameraman, a professional with no stake in miracles, said he had never seen anything like it." — Saint Teresa of Calcutta, A Light in the Darkness [NO AUDIO YET] The saint of the gutters of Calcutta, who saw Christ in the poorest of the poor and served Him there, doing small things wit...

"And then she asked Brigid to take it back." — Saint Brigid of Kildare, The Flame That Never Went Out [NO AUDIO YET] The abbess of Kildare, Mary of the Gael, whose perpetual flame burned for a thousand years and whose boundless charity to the poor made her Ireland's beloved mother-saint. ...

"He had not expected to find, in a storefront-turned-cathedral in Harlem, the first church that felt, in his own later words, entirely real." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of a Life [NO AUDIO YET] A pastor and theologian who taught the cost of discipleship, stood with the Confessing Churc...

"I asked it of God, and he granted it." — Saint Benedict, The Patriarch of the West The father of Western monasticism, whose Rule of prayer and work, ora et labora, shaped the life of Europe for fifteen centuries. The complete life is read aloud in full, The Patriarch of the West — a rev...