Prayer (Difficulties, Challenges of, Struggles)
“God is love and though it is at times hard for us to bear, God sometimes chooses for us a different path than that which we are praying...
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...
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,...
Body and Soul/Spiritual and Physical
“That the soul is superior to the body is an assumption based in Hellenistic philosophy and is a bit dualistic as the bible presents...
God's Love
“As soon as the Lord looked upon this paralyzed man and looked upon the faith of those who brought Him, He immediately said to the man...
Holiness
“God tells us to be holy as He is holy. This holiness is a characteristic of the divine, that which separates or distinguishes divinity...
Mercy
“Human effort is of no effect in the face of God’s actions (Romans 9:16). Events occur according to the mercy of God, whether or not they...
Individualism (Modern Notions)
“It is insistence on the individualistic mode of the created that constitutes ‘evil’ and freedom from this mode, self-transcendence in...
Perfectionism
“We have to follow our life’s path, although our life isn’t always perfect. Let’s not just stand around waiting for everything to be...
Resurrection
“St. Maximus the Confessor describes human beings as a “microcosm,” that is, as the universe (cosmos) made small (micro). This indicates...