God's Giving
“God gave us a mind in order that we might learn and receive help from Him, not in order that the mind should be self-sufficient. Eyes...
Rejecting God
“Jesus now describes the guilt of the world. He came to these people with both words (15:22) and sign-miracles (15:24), yet they remained...
Mind of Christ
“St. Paul called “that mindset which was in Christ Jesus,” the phronema Christou (Phil. 2.5).”…Our phronema is our mindset, but mental...
God's Will (Always is Done)
“God works invisibly beneath our actions to deal with desperate circumstances. He uses our striving to face troubles and perils to carry...
Compulsion
“There is a big difference between having compulsions and being a slave to them. We share in Christ’s victory over sin through our union...
Interior/Inner Life
“Sin works in the soul and heart, but most terribly in the mind (Romans 1:28) or nous, which is the center or eye of the heart according...
Righteousness
“Man follows his desire. One can even say that man is desire, and this fundamental psychological truth about human nature is acknowledged...
Receptive
“The Holy Spirit, one of the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity comes to abide in us, God’s people, if we are receptive to having the...
Faith and Success
“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness…God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful.” (Mother...
Information
“In our information age, many resources are readily available for us to seek the Lord—too many. A story from the desert fathers gives...