Think about it …
The Devil’s Delusion by David Berlinski In The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov exclaims that if God does not exist, then everything is permitted. (Location 318)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” And the age does not matter. There’s a fine line between a believer and non-believer.
Pray on this
An Exorcist Explains the Demonic by Fr Gabriele Amorth …the devil looks in each person precisely for his weak point and “works” on it, creating his next sinful occasions… (Location 308)
No one is immune
Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley “A terminal illness doesn’t belong only to the one who is sick—it affects family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers. Not unlike a still pond disturbed by a falling stone, an impending death sends ripples through all the relationships in the life of the dying. Each person involved has his…
Lost in the Cosmos
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy “You live in a deranged age – more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
“In His will is our peace.”
I am standing right where God wants me to be. I am honoring His Church, its Holy Traditions, apostolicity and ecclesiology. In doing so I rely heavily on percept. I go further, focusing on phenomenology. Both percept and phenomenology are the direct experience of God in life. The foundation to percept and phenomenology is prayer….
A Good Man Said…
“I don’t believe there are good faith discussions to be had with Orthodox who believe that the clear teaching of the Church is negotiable.” And “quotes Chesterton’s sage comment that one should never tear down a fence unless one knows why it was put there in the first place.”
Quote from: The Black Swan
“…it is extremely convenient for us to assume that we live in Mediocristan.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Continual Confrontation
…engaging the demonic.
Jung
If “feelings,” “emotions,” and “intuition” guide your life and life’s decisions, then you are a Jungian–a gnostic–and part of a cult. You are not Orthodox Christian. Second only to Julian the Apostate, Jung is probably the most successful pagan prophet in the last 2,000 years. Jung is a very similar figure; he was a polytheist….