Healing/Healers (Medicine, Physicians, Healthcare Workers)
“It is godly to honor the hard-working physician, who is seen in Scripture as a gift from God. Since God is the true Healer, it is He that gives the physician healing skills…God gives healing skills to druggists and pharmacists for the benefit of all mankind…How blessed are those whose physician is a faithful, praying Christian.” (Orthodox Study Bible, Wisdom of Sirach 38:1-3, 6-8, 14-15) “The great danger and temptation of secularism (modernity’s greatest invention) is to la
Joy and Happiness - Part 1
“…we have a misleading idea at the very head of our Constitution: the pursuit of happiness. One can not pursue happiness; if he does he obscures it. If he will proceed with the human task of life, the relocation of the center of gravity of the personality to something greater outside itself, happiness will be the outcome.” (Alexis de Tocqueville) “Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness s