Reveal/Revelation
“God is an obvious reality, but man is a paradoxical being—God’s beloved creation, fallen away from real life and caught in some fiction,...
Ambition
“Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people—which is what I think it does...
Compassion
“It is of note to me that there is a great darkness associated with God in some presentations of the Christian faith, enough to drive...
Salvation
“…Chrysostom understands original sin not in terms of inherited or personal guilt but in terms of an inherited mortality that causes...
Works (Good Works)
“When the Lord Jesus addresses His disciples openly before a multitude assembled in Roman Palestine, He reminds us that the faithful of...
Joy (Mystery of)
“The New Testament books tell us time and time again about such a human emotion as joy; we can read about joy in many literary works,...
Love (Growing Cold)
“The Lord says that because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold (Matthew 24:12). Usually this point is presented as...
Anger
“If a man were to see himself in a mirror in a fit of anger, of rage, he’d be horrified and wouldn’t recognize himself with such a...
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 Nature/Our Nature
“It is very interesting that…it is only when God “empties himself” for the life of the world, that He actually takes on being. Before...