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- While He [the Lord Jesus] was sitting alone by the well, 'There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water' (John 4:7). As man, the…
- Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of…
- You should secretly give from what you have to those in need, so that you receive from God, Who sees in secret, a hundred times…
- The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and the prelude of…
- We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon…
- When we become incorruptible and immortal and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the Lord, gaining fulfillment…
- The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not just the human…
- Let none of you have a soul which is barren and without fruit. Let nobody be unloving or unreceptive to the spiritual seed. May each…
- It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What…
- Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and…
- If... we choose death rather than true life, God does not take away the power that He gave us. And not only does He not…
- The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even…
- ... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and…
- ... we can see both that love for God is begotten from the virtues and that virtues are born of love. For this reason the…
- Life of the soul is union with God, as life of the body is union with the soul. As the soul was separated from God…
- ... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance of the intellect.…
- ... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How…
- ... the Lord's Cross discloses the entire dispensation of His Coming in the flesh, and contains within it the whole mystery of this dispensation. Extending…
- Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts…
- 'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be: but…
- Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation and unimpeachable hope.…
- The recovery of spiritual sight and the healing of physical blindness have much in common. Some of those whose bodily eyes were blind received their…
- ... whenever Christ, the Bridegroom of pure souls, is mystically united with each soul, He gives the Father occasion to rejoice over this as at…
- Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears,…
- If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously. In the same…
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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Progress, this great heresy of decay. — Charles Baudelaire
- One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six… — Mortimer Adler
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. — Samuel Butler
- I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and… — Marina Abramovic
- (When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan
- If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and… — Robert D. Brinsmead
- [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow
- It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell
- We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman
- Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll