+ “Often we say, ‘But if He only heard me, He would take my trouble away; I appeal to Him, but I still have trouble.’ Just hold steady and keep to His ways, and when you are in trouble He does hear you. But remember He is a physician, and...

+ “If we are on the watch to see our own faults, we shall not see those of our neighbor. It is folly for a person who has a dead person in his house to leave him there and go to weep over his neighbor’s dead. To die to one’s...

+ Blessed Feast of Sts. Peter & St. Paul  Let this, I say, be our way of overpowering [non-believers] and our way of conducting our warfare against them: let us astound them by our way of life rather than by words. For this is the main battle, this is the...

+ Blessed Apostles’ Fast Beloved, let us not remain content only with calling the Apostle blessed, but let us make all our actions in such a way as to become also blessed ourselves. Let us imitate the Evangelist [John] and see what caused Christ’s love for him. What, then, was...