Obedience (and Freedom and Salvation)
“Obedience is not to carry out this or that order that you were given, while you object on the inside. Obedience is to subordinate your...
Repentance (God's Love and Patience)
“God granted one hundred years while the ark was being made to that generation, and still they did not repent. God summoned beasts that...
Integrity
“Integrity is all about integration, as opposed to fragmentation and disintegration. A complete human being, one well pleasing to God, is...
Willpower
“In his disobedience and expulsion from Paradise, man lost the grace of the Holy Spirit (My Spirit shall not remain)…Without the grace of...
Giving (as Healing and Life-Giving)
“From this standpoint, the needs of others are tests of our relationship to the passions that threaten to control our inner life. Whether...
Human Nature
“In [Genesis 1]verses 26-27, there is a significant pause in the narrative as God reflects within Himself, i.e., among the three divine...
Participation
“The modern fascination with its own mind actually alienates us from what is real and true. We perceive knowledge as thinking – the...
Ideas
“In the contemporary world, secularism, neo-paganism, along with eastern spiritualities, abound in the market-place of ideas, confusing...
Worldliness
“At various times, drinking, card-playing, dancing, and even movies were viewed as “worldly.” If you stayed away from these things, you...
Love (Tangible)
“When Saint John introduces the reality of love (1 John 3) – God’s love for all men, our love for God, our love for others, our love for...