Theosis/Union with God
“Our quest for communion with the everlasting God reorients our vision, directing it toward the eternal destiny of all mankind. We...
God's Will and Obedience
“Only an obedient heart can truly pray, for the end of prayer is not speaking to God, but hearing and heeding what He is saying back to...
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...
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,...
Christ in Us
“Before we can cry out about Christ to others, however, we have to cry out for Christ to be in us. We have to cultivate Christ in us. We...
God Bringing Us Back to Him
“It’s difficult to know when God has been disciplining us until we look back on the situation later. Not every calamity comes directly...
Spiritual Depth
“The moral/spiritual life, when treated as one more progressive project, is largely marked by constant failure or worse. We cannot teach...
Guarding Ourselves
“The fact is that no one knows the day or the hour when our souls will be required of us. That’s why feeding the soul on a daily basis,...
Silence and Prayer
“…silence is the preferred sound of the soul. The noise of the mind is the chatter of distraction. Such a description is frustrating to...
Refuge
“God is our refuge and power, a help in afflictions that severely befall us…Be still and know that I am God…God is a refuge for His...