Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is not a feeling. You do not get instant gratification from it. It is, instead, a decision we make as an act of our will.”...
Desire
“Desire is transformed into lust when we exclude God from the picture. Without God, the natural powers of our soul become corrupt. Abba...
Repentance (as Life)
“By holding on so tightly to our sense of self, we choked God, strangling him, and put him to death. ‘But,’ you might ask, ‘can God die?’...
Faith and Knowledge
“In order to become wise, we must first become fools. The most valuable knowledge of all is the knowledge of what we don’t know. The...
Externals
“God’s commandments are not an alien, external authority that enslaves us…they are “natural knowledge given us by God, whether this comes...