Comfort and Suffering
“Our God is “the Father of mercies and God of all comfort” according to St Paul – a wonderful image of our Creator. The God of comforts...
God (With or Without)
“Precisely because of the excision of God from our life, or at least the marginalization of him, we’ve become convinced that everything’s...
Unbelief and Disbelief
“Unbelief toward the Lord produces many vices—especially irrational choices, for unbelief is contrary to a rational mind…Unbelief is of...
Hubris
“…hubris seems to signify not pride but rather a failure of the aesthetic sense; the hubristic man is the man who cannot see that his...
Hiddenness
“Christ was hidden in the Scriptures, which could not be understood until the time when the things that they had spoken of had come to...
Battle/Fight Within
“Christianity has always meant an opposition to and a fight with this world – a fight, let me stress it again, which is primarily, if not...
Granted (Take for)
“As sinners, we take our fallenness for granted. In our encounters with other human beings, we live as if this is a normal state. Our...
Weariness (Fatigue)
“People today are weary, confused and darkened by sin and egoism….People need to realize that their life is troubled because they have...
Disdain
“We observe how the Lord often focuses attention on our disdain for one another. We encounter this common attitude in ourselves every...
Devil/Satan/Demons/Demonic
“… it has become commonplace to observe that American society is more deeply divided than at any time in our history since the Civil War....