Prayer
“There are very few people who come to their senses, very few who understand life. We pray with our lips only, and we hurry through our...
Prayer (and Focus)
“We can sit down and say the Jesus Prayer for hours every night, but if our mind is wandering all over the place, there is no profit in...
Protection
“Fear is a powerful enemy of our faith and a strong deterrent to the believer’s peace of mind… Faith in God keeps us from losing hope and...
Divine Judgement
“The time for us to entreat repose is now. We are to prepare for the end of this life by making our beds well so that we may rest in joy....
Pain and Purpose
“God would not allow anyone to go through anything painful and heartbreaking without desiring to ultimately use that for His larger...
Law
“…the Church is justified as being greater than the Law, for the Law does not know the forgiveness of sins, nor the mystery in which...
True Love
“Love—The more one reads 1 Corinthians 13, the more one has to face the fact that we don’t naturally have that kind of love in us. The...
Instinct
“Human beings, by virtue of being created in the divine image, instinctively engage in mimesis, the imitation of their Creator. As...
Material Things
“Our world is a material world. We are constantly presented with technological advances and improvements and sentiments such as: “He who...
Prayer (for Others)
“One must force himself to prayer when he has not spiritual prayer; and thus God, beholding him thus striving and compelling himself by...