SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“One of my students came to seminary when he was already middle-aged, after considerable success in the world. This student was later...

“Neurosis is a personality crisis. This is the clash of the desired and actual. And this is often a spiritual problem. An unrestrained...

“Every human being who comes into this world is unique, and all are given the opportunity to know God.” (Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica) “We...

“Some forms of loss that are often ignored, or are not as readily identifiable as loss, are divorce (our own or our parents’), traumatic...

“Life itself is a form of ascesis. People just don’t recognize it, and lose heart.”…The fact [life], is ascetic in nature means it...

“…“Let all that you do be done in love” (1 Corinthians 16:14). If love was the conscious goal for our every action, we would expect it...

“God is He of Whom no questions would arise within us if we weren’t sinful, if we hadn’t fallen from Paradise, as chicks fall from their...

“The received word of God, sown into the depth of the heart, begins its secret work, like leaven in dough. However, that which was heard...

“Heresy comes from a Greek word that means “picking and choosing.” A heretic is someone who picks and chooses which parts of a religion...

“People always seem to be thinking too literally, and Jesus is always moving them from the literal to the spiritual level—to seeing...