Theosis/Union with God
“Our quest for communion with the everlasting God reorients our vision, directing it toward the eternal destiny of all mankind. We...
God's Will and Obedience
“Only an obedient heart can truly pray, for the end of prayer is not speaking to God, but hearing and heeding what He is saying back to...
Questioning
""Independent thinking is an important goal of our education system. We want our children to grow up thinking for themselves so that they...
Example
“Today, there are more words and books and fewer living examples...Example is the most powerful rhetoric” (St. Paisios the Athonite,...
Love and Action/Will
"Love is a choice, a choice we must go on making for the rest of our lives. To love is not to act on instinct but to set before ourselves...
False Teaching
“False teachers are always charmed by their own ideas about truth. Worse, because they willfully attract others to adopt their ideas,...
Cares
“God wants us to give or burdens to Him, but we often continue to bear them ourselves even when we say we are trusting in Him. Trust the...
God Bringing Us Back to Him
“It’s difficult to know when God has been disciplining us until we look back on the situation later. Not every calamity comes directly...
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...
Hinderances
“Ongoing sin tolerated in a believer’s life is one of the main things that blocks effective prayer and hinders growth…The one who loves...