• “When people have these kind of problems, it’s time to stop asking what’s wrong with them and time to start asking what happened to them.”

    — Dr. Robert Anda

  • “The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction.”

    —St. Basil the Great

  • …listen to the cause: for a small gain they travel far; for eternal life many will scarcely lift a foot from the ground. They seek a petty reward, and sometimes fight shamefully in law courts for a single piece of money. They are not afraid to work day and night for a trifle or an empty promise. But, for an unchanging good, for a reward beyond estimate, for the greatest honor and for glory everlasting, it must be said to their shame that men begrudge even the least fatigue. Be ashamed, then, lazy and complaining servant, that they should be found more eager for perdition than you are for life, that they rejoice more in vanity than you in truth.

    —Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

  • “‘Overcome evil with good.’ [Romans 12:21]  For you cannot conquer evil with evil, just as you cannot put out fire by fire, but only by water.”

    —St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ

  • “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

    —Jim Rohn

  • “The man who prays in faith never employs (or is engaged in) ways and means.”

    —St Isaac the Syrian, Ascetical Homilies

  • Things happen in our lives—moments happen—we’re saved from certain things. God touches our hearts in certain ways, and yet there is no change. …Why?  Because change means I need to change. Something in my life has to change. …It might mean that I have to change certain things about myself—certain behaviors, certain relationships. …It might mean I need to have a real hard think about the way I’m living my life. …It might mean I might have to look like a fool socially.  …it may mean that I have to look at that thing in my life which I know is not appropriate, but it gives me joy and it gives me pleasure, and so I keep it there. Change is required.

    We Need Change
    Sunday Homilies, 4 Feb 18
    February 4, 2018 • Fr. Daniel Fanous

  • My own definition of success is “leaving your corner of the world better than you found it.” Your “corner” may be focused on a single town or a neighborhood within a city, or it may carry you to dozens of countries. Whatever your sphere of influence, when you are seeking to enrich the lives of others through relationships, you will find the most satisfying form of success.

    Love as a Way of Life
    Gary Chapman

  • ​​“We cannot have trust in someone whom we know only superficially. We must know this someone, we must have created a relationship with him. In the end it is necessary to love this someone in order to have confidence in him. Our knowledge of God does not come from books, nor is it the result of reflection. To arrive at knowledge of God, it is necessary to cultivate a relationship with Him. We do not know God as an idea, as the result of a process of thought. It is something else entirely: God is known through an immediate relationship, and it is this which we must seek.”

    —Alexander Schmemann

  • “Too much indecision is a decision.”

    — Brianna Wiest