Thoughts (Battling Them)
“I once confessed to an experienced priest that sinful thoughts were torturing me, and this is what he advised me: “Think of the thoughts...
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...
Looking Backwards/Looking to the Past
“Ultimately, none of us are defined by our past, but rather we are defined by what we become in Christ. This is why we can declare...
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...
Order and Disorder
“Have you seen how, with creation, when God wished to make creation, with how much harmony and godly wisdom everything was put together,...
Contentment
“From a lack of contentment comes death…What we see in the Garden is paradise. A place of intimate and immediate communion with God,...
Participation
“…our modern culture believes that relationships with other people are merely psychological phenomena – they are all in our head. There...
Hope
“Many people indeed live lives of “quiet desperation” simply because they have no hope and cannot imagine where hope would begin. The...