SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Mankind is carried away by other aspirations and goals, created for its own detriment and ruin. There are people who don’t pray at all, who don’t feel the need for it, who don’t understand the point of praying and don’t believe in the possibility of being heard by God; and many people do pray, but rarely and always reluctantly, with compulsion and difficulty. Thus, there are very few people who live by fervent, strong, sincere, noetic, and unceasing prayer, according to the

“The material success of modern technology creates an allusion of greatness. To a great extent it only bears witness to power and wealth....

“…there are people who have everything but at the same time say they have nothing. They have a house, but they want two, three, four,...

“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...

“Lift up and stretch out your hands, not to heaven but to the poor; for if you stretch out your hands to the poor, you have reached the...

“God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves…We need to...

“Many think that pain is the exception in the Christian life. When suffering occurs, they say,"why me?” They feel as though God deserted...