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...
Repentance (God's Love and Patience)
“To repent is not to look downwards at my own shortcomings, but upwards at God's love, it is not to look backwards with self-reproach but...
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...
Modern Culture
“Because this is a fallen world, deeply, ontologically rooted in the habit of sin, culture was also understood as profoundly ambiguous....
Breath and Breathing
“God has given to the earth the breath which feeds it. It is his breath that gives life to all things. And if he were to withhold his...
Love and Treatment of Others
If I cannot see and love Christ in another human being, the result is the same as being cut off from the source of life within myself....
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...
Spiritual and Material
“… that the whole tendency to differentiate material, secular, or natural things, on the one hand; from supernatural, spiritual, divine...
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...