29 November 2018

Romance, Adventure and Achievement

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek
him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest
human achievement.

                                                      ― St. Augustine of Hippo

25 November 2018
Battle in the Quiet

He who sit alone and is quite has escaped from three wars:
hearing, speaking, seeing: but there is one thing against which
he must continually fight: that is his own heart.

                — St. Antony the Great, Sayings of the Desert Fathers

10 November 2018

On Thanksgiving

Let us give thanks to God continually. For, it is outrageous that when we enjoy His
benefaction to us in deed every single day, we do not acknowledge the favor with so
much as a word; and this, when the acknowledgment confers great benefit on us.
He does not need anything of ours, but we stand in need of all things from Him.


                — St. John Chrysostom, Homily 25, Homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew