SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“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...

“In our culture, if someone spoke about coldness of the heart, we would likely describe it as an emotional issue, and dismiss it or...

“Precisely because of the excision of God from our life, or at least the marginalization of him, we’ve become convinced that everything’s...

“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...

“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...

“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...

“ [‘For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by...

“There are two ways in which the prayer of a righteous man is effective. The first is when the person praying does so by offering to God...

“Even if we do not constantly struggle against “murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies” (Matthew 12:19),...

“It is impossible to know God and not know the self. It is also the case that it is impossible to know the self and not know God. St....