Thankfulness
“Praise and thanksgiving should be our God-given norm and our constant in life…By giving praise and thanks to God, our hearts are...
Heart (Good and Bad)
“Real life is lived in the depths of our heart, as is our hell and our paradise. That is where the battle is fought between our good and...
Heart (Cold-hearted)
“In our culture, if someone spoke about coldness of the heart, we would likely describe it as an emotional issue, and dismiss it or...
God (With or Without)
“Precisely because of the excision of God from our life, or at least the marginalization of him, we’ve become convinced that everything’s...
Purpose
“It should be common knowledge (though it is not) that the whole of our purpose in this life is communion with God, and, together with...
Battle/Fight Within
“Christianity has always meant an opposition to and a fight with this world – a fight, let me stress it again, which is primarily, if not...
Burdens
“Have we been living reactively or proactively? Each one has profound ramifications for our emotional, spiritual, and physical health....
Asceticism
“…asceticism is the path to holiness, growth, and stability…If we practice asceticism and strip away our ego, control our ‘false self’,...
Giving (Attitude of)
“When it is in the “strength” of our hand [Proverbs 9:27]…we should not hold back our charity. We should offer aid to the destitute...
Kingdom of God/Heaven
“…our goal is not to make the world into paradise, but rather to prevent it from becoming hell. Each of us can work to make holiness...