Memory (Remember)
“There was once a woman who went to church for thirty years. When she got sick, she was scared and said to her priest, “Father, have I...
Quotes of the Day for June 23, 2025 – Thoughts on remembering and being remembered in order to live
“There was once a woman who went to church for thirty years. When she got sick, she was scared and said to her priest, “Father, have I...
Money
“God needs a place in our hearts, to grab a hold of something in a man’s soul. Then the man can be helped. But if his heart and soul are...
God's Love
“In shame, the only thing we accept is our failure and the idea that we deserve perpetual punishment….The shame we are speaking of is a...
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...
Agency (God and Human)
“I consider it both a strange mystery and a settled matter of the faith that God prefers not to do things alone…He acts in a manner that...
Repentance
“What were God’s first words, having become man, in His peaching? ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’ There are no hopeless...
Adam and Eve
“Eve and Adam decide the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is more desirable than their relationship to God. God told...