Author: Nathaniel Fermin
We need patience to endure the sorrow that besets us so that we do not betray the good we have.
It is a mistake to think that the natural me that I wish to flaunt is a thing of great value in itself.
"I think the wise person’s essential gift is tender receptivity."
We think we need every question answered. Our brains tell us we do. We don’t.
God's gifts are meant to lead us to him, not away from him.
Forgiveness, then, is the requirement for a true worship of God.
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.
Christian materialism, instead of making us despise consumer goods, should move us to take good care of the material wealth that we possess.
Love makes suffering fruitful and suffering deepens love.