Faith (as an Adventure)
“…an open-ended obedience to God’s call constitutes the nature of true faith. First, we obey. Only afterward do we grasp what God...
Example
“Today, there are more words and books and fewer living examples...Example is the most powerful rhetoric” (St. Paisios the Athonite,...
Hiding
"Too often we recall that Adam and Eve were cast out of Paradise for disobedience and sin. In one sense this is true, but there is a...
Heart (Condition of)
“The most portentous fact about any person is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to...
Desperation
“Sometimes man is subjected to a very long period of this abandonment, when the sky is seemingly shut for him and the soul becomes...
Humbling Ourselves
"This is the spirit of our age: the reliance on our own sense of right as an arbiter of all things. It is the refusal to humble ourselves...
Grace and Joy
“The Greek word for joy is chairo. This word is related to charis, which means “grace.” Joy, therefore, is literally rooted in grace....
False Teaching
“False teachers are always charmed by their own ideas about truth. Worse, because they willfully attract others to adopt their ideas,...
Complexity and Simplicity
“God is “a Spirit, an incomplex Being . . . not composed of a series or of a multitude of thoughts, or of a multitude of words or...
Heart and Head
“Most of us live outside our heart, and our mind is in a constant state of confusion. Some good thoughts may surface from time to time,...