Warrior
“Christ said it in a timely fashion: that in this life we must be warriors, even within our own family; our own people will behave as...
Renounce
“The more a person truly desires the fullness of a life in Christ, the easier it becomes to renounce those things that are contrary to...
Self-Interest
“There is no doubt that people will act in their own self-interest. It is inherent in sin.” (Father Stephen Freeman) “Power and...
Complexity and Simplicity
“God is “a Spirit, an incomplex Being . . . not composed of a series or of a multitude of thoughts, or of a multitude of words or...
Rejection
“All of us have experienced times of discouragement, times when we feel that all in the world has turned against us. Our intentions are...
Value
“Each of us has some manifestation of Christ’s grace in us. This comes out in our personalities and our talents. There is no one who has...
Spiritual Depth
“The moral/spiritual life, when treated as one more progressive project, is largely marked by constant failure or worse. We cannot teach...
Superficial
“…you can learn a lot of things and can have a mind like an Encyclopedia, full of all knowledge, but if you don’t know yourself and who...
Symbols
“[The] Church has a symbolic understanding of the world where everything is seen as a symbol of the action of God in the world and where...
Silence and Prayer
“…silence is the preferred sound of the soul. The noise of the mind is the chatter of distraction. Such a description is frustrating to...