Time Is Given by God

What is more precious than anything in the world? Time! And what do we waste uselessly and without being sorry? Time! What do we not value and what do we disregard more than anything? Time! When we waste time, we lose ourselves… Time is given by God to use correctly for the salvation of the soul and the acquisition of the life to come… The Lord will call us to account for having stolen time for our own whims, and for not using it for God and our souls.

- St Sebastian of Optina

Our Father Is Younger Than We…

Grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

~ GK Chesterton

Don’t Wage your Christian Struggle with Sermons

Don’t wage your Christian struggle with sermons and arguments, but with true love. When we argue, others react. When we love people, they are moved and we win them over. When we love we think that we offer something to others, but in reality we are the first to benefit.

~ Elder Porphyrios

I See No Point…

 

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The time for easy Christianity is over. In fact, it never really existed…

- Archbishop Charles Chaput

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I prefer a man who sins and repents to one who does not sin and does not repent. The first has good thoughts, for he admits that he is sinful. But the second has false, soul-destroying thoughts, for he imagines himself to be righteous.

- Abba Poemen the Great

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I Believe in Christianity…

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

―    C.S. Lewis

A Quote…

Or two, that I wish to share with you:

The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

- Albert Einstein

In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble.

- Gary Amirault

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His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

- Proverbs 26:26

Builder or Wrecker?

Builder or a Wrecker?

I watched them tearing a building down,
A gang of men in a busy town.
With a ho-heave-ho and lusty yell,
They swung a beam and a sidewall fell.
I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled,
As the men you’d hire if you had to build?”
He gave me a laugh and said, “No indeed!
Just common labour is all I need.
I can easily wreck in a day or two

What builders have taken a year to do.”
And I tho’t to myself as I went my way,
Which of these two roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care,
Measuring life by the rule and square?
Am I shaping my deeds by a well-made plan,
Patiently doing the best I can?
Or am I a wrecker who walks the town,
Content with the labour of tearing down?
“O Lord let my life and my labours be
That which will build for eternity.”

~Author Unknown~

On The Edge

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

- GK Chesterton