On Love…
“Human love anticipates divine love, while divine love perfects human love.”
Category: Book of Crumbs
Brief thoughts for spiritual reflection and edification
On the Name of God…
Why is the Name of God important? Without a Name, how can we call on Him; how can we have a relationship with Him; how can we experience Him? Names give identit...
On Spiritual Blindness…
An elder said, “Strife delivers a man to anger, anger to blindness, and blindness makes him work all manner of evil.”
On Virtue…
An elder said, “Nobody acquires virtue without toil, or if he does, it does not stay with him. It is to those who mourn and hunger that the kingdom of hea...
On the Lord…
There was a strong and violent wind rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the LORD—but the LORD was not in the wind; after the wind, an earthquake—but...
On Prayer
The elders used to say that prayer is the monk’s mirror. I say: prayer is every person’s spiritual mirror.
That you might learn not to faint in discipline…
`Once a demon exceeding high appeared with pomp, and dared to say, “I am the power of God and I am Providence, what dost thou wish that I shall give thee?...