Steven Payne: 6 books

Eight hundred years ago, Albert of Jerusalem gave the hermit-penitents of Mount Carmel a way of life to follow. Since then, this rule has inspired and formed mystics and scholars, men and women, lay and ordained to seek the living God. In The Carmelite Tradition Steven Payne, OCD, brings together...

"... all my latter life you had Always the whole of me. In a few words that I can leave You can keep the soul of me." LOVE POEMS by Steven Payne Steven Payne lives and writes in his home county of Leicestershire. He is the author of Carrying the Torch, My Lost Prize...

Steven Payne lives and writes in his home county of Leicestershire. He is the author of Carrying the Torch, My Lost Prize, Love Letters: Great Literary Romances and Love Poems, all published by Xlibris.

When I want to read a book, I write one. So wrote the 19th century politician and novelist Benjamin Disraeli - Washington Irving said something very similar - and its a maxim which Ive adopted as my own. Almost all of the writing Ive done over many years has been based on wanting to read a book on...

  Revised edition of classic overview of the principal texts, themes, and teachings of Carmel: Elijah and Mary, the Rule of St. Albert, the Carmelite understanding of prayer, and the message of Sts. Teresa, John of the Cross, and Thérèse.  Carmel is known above all...

Few if any of us forget our first love: for some it can remain an all-consuming obsession of a lifetime. My Lost Prize looks at the phenomenon of first love through the real-life stories of three of the worlds greatest writers, three geniuses who never got over their first loves and drew upon their experiences to create some of their greatest work.