Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.
Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.
One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that period – the centuries that is, before Constantine, and two after, determine the boundary of our faith.
Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.
I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.
A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.
It's time to "stop being ambivalent. ". . . They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Justice is the one thing you should always find.