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“Christianity demands that the family be a small church…Our home is a little church, and creating the right sort of context and...
Patience, Persistence, and Perseverance
“Many people today lack perseverance. We have become so accustomed to instantaneous communication and access to entertainment and...
Despondency
“It is a commonplace in the Fathers to describe despair or sadness as the result of failing to get what we want. It sounds quite simple,...
Humility and Pride
“The virtue of humility is best captured by our willingness to receive with thanksgiving those things (of whatever size) that come our...
Compassion
“A difficulty in our present world is that we are confronted with distorted versions of our Christian selves. Various critical theory...
Order and Disorder
“Have you seen how, with creation, when God wished to make creation, with how much harmony and godly wisdom everything was put together,...
Idle Talk
“Our tongue is set in motion by nothing else but the heart. All the superfluousness accumulated in the heart is poured out by the tongue,...
God's Love
“As soon as the Lord looked upon this paralyzed man and looked upon the faith of those who brought Him, He immediately said to the man...
Falling Down and Getting Up
“…there’s no reason to be depressed by your shortcomings or discouraged when you fall. Repentance as a lifestyle doesn’t mean that you...
Contentment
“From a lack of contentment comes death…What we see in the Garden is paradise. A place of intimate and immediate communion with God,...