+ “Let us then give diligent heed to the study of the Scriptures. For if you do this, the Scripture will expel your despondency, and engender pleasure, remove vice, and make virtue take root, and in the tumult of life, it will save you from suffering like those who are...

+ “Lord,” St. Peter answered, “we have fished all night and have caught nothing.” Perhaps if St. Peter had caught some little fish, Jesus would not have performed the miracle, but because he had nothing, Jesust soon filled his net in such a way as almost to break it. This...

+ “But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house” (Mark 2:10-11). For the Lord does the same with our spiritual sicknesses. He not...

+ For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ. (2 Cor. 1:15). Let us then not sink down when tempted… Whoever is in affliction and temptation, whoever is journeying on the narrow and difficult way, this person stands near to Him. For...