Rest/Renewal/Restoration
“What is spiritual renewal? It is when you are no longer weighed down by the burden of past traumas and mistakes, your present is filled...
Holiness
“One of the most encouraging lines of the Divine Liturgy comes shortly before Holy Communion, when the priest says “The Holy Gifts for...
Life and Death
“Spiritual death is therefore, spiritual paralysis. Those who are in this state of lifelessness are “dead in trespasses and the...
Solitude /Stillness /Silence
“Stillness of the heart is the practice of quieting yourself to such a degree that you can finally come to hear the voice of God clearly...
Paradox
“Everything is paradox, and we throw ourselves upon the mercy of God… as Grace increases in our lives, we become more like Christ through...
Focus
“Rather than support a life of prayer our society keeps us perpetually distracted and erodes our ability to concentrate, compromises our...
Self and Self-Will
“But Nietzsche, madman and destroyer of faith, fascinated me. His work was twisted and imaginative, truthful and awful and compelling; he...
Peace
“…we believe that this word of peace enters into the violence of history not as an idea but as a Person….The pervasive, cosmic peace we...
Rules and Legalism
“Isn’t it amazing that everyone is taught grammar so no one writes in his own way, but according to the rules? They try to teach everyone...
Intellectual Pride
“The pride of the mind is much more disastrous than the pride of the will, because the pride of the will can be observed by the mind,...