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,...
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...
Perfect Love
“God, the Holy Trinity, is perfect love. As Gregory of Nyssa observes, the Holy Trinity “is a sort of continuous and indivisible...
Love (and to be Loved)
“If there is one resilient and God given aspect of us that has remained intact throughout history and time, it is our innate desire to...
Mourning
“…our Savior has told us: “blessed are they that mourn.” Not because the Lord wants us to be downcast, guilt-ridden and tormented, but...
Retribution
“The near-total focus on the “fall of Adam” in the West, however, has led to both a lack of familiarity with the other episodes of human...
Theodicy
“…theodicy has a useful purpose nowadays. For those who might not know, theodicy is expressed by the question, if God is good and all...
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...
Piety
Quotes of the Day for September 22, 2023 – Thoughts on the danger of misguided piety “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician,...