Persistence in Prayer
“We all struggle to persist in prayer…Mercifully, Christ aids us in our labors at prayer. Our King and God presents us with three types...
Prayer and Feelings
“All kinds of things are going on invisibly within us when we pray, though outwardly nothing has changed and we feel only the same....
Faith and Thought/Thinking
“Our culture thinks in terms of “thinking” (ratio). However, Christian faith is not a subset or a mode of discursive reason. It is,...
Love and Knowledge
“Knowledge is power and love is the aim; when they go hand in hand we have a wonderful result. ‘Knowledge puffs up whereas love builds...
Esoteric Knowledge
“There is something enticing about secrets. In our time, spiritualism, theosophy, New Age spirituality, and the occult claim hidden...
Failure
“…we see in Paul’s words, “Scripture confined all under sin” (Galatians 3:22). The Greek word “confined” comes from the root “to shut up...
Repentance (Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions)
“Repentance is to do the works of God rather than the works of the devil. Sin is much more a state of being, a demonic force, than it is...
Sin and Struggle
“It is easy to fall into the devil’s trap of spiritual stagnation. In this lethargy of the spirit, we do not see beneath the surface of...
Exchange (Blessed)
“…Scriptures proclaim—and the Liturgy celebrates, the Sacraments realize, the Icons depict, the Canons protect, the Martyrs witness, the...
Complacency
“We are lulled into a form of complacency by our culture’s exaltation of “objective” knowledge. We fail to notice that, even in very...