truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 10:06 am

There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James A. Baldwin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 10:10 am

If you’ve ever tried to sit down for as little as five minutes and say the Jesus Prayer without any other thought invading your mind, you have certainly discovered what an incredibly difficult thing that is to do, and just how noisy your soul is on a daily basis. If God is perceived in the midst of a quiet soul, it is no wonder that so few people ever truly become internally aware of Him.
Fr. Michael Reagon

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 10:11 am

Our souls are filled with a seemingly endless supply of thoughts, fantasies, cravings, and sins. Listen to your soul sometime; it will frighten you to hear all that goes on in there, and how seldom it finds rest in God. Not only are our souls noisy enough in their own right, but we constantly import noise through the TV, the car radio, or our iPods, as if we lived in dread fear of experiencing so much as a moment of inner quiet.
Fr. Michael Reagon

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 10:15 am

And when it comes to God, it’s not how much we know about Him, but whether or not we really know Him that decides eternal life, for Jesus said, “And this is eternal life: that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent”.
Fr, Michael Reagon

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 10:17 am

We can’t get much out of Lent by accident; unless we intentionally adopt this period as a time of change, a time of greater repentance, deeper devotion, and more attentive prayer with fewer distractions, we won’t get from it what we could.
fr. Michael Reagon

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 3:56 pm

We do better to pray than to argue doctrine unless the latter is of utter necessity. For many, it has become something of a parlor game, and this has been to the detriment of Christianity and even of our salvation. Sometimes less is more, and sometimes less is enough.
Fr. Stephen Freeman

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 6 March 2007 7:47 am

Every man is a darn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard