Love and Conduct

The story of Christ's disciples suggests that love and admiration are powerful motives for adopting a person's values and ideas. By the same token, ...

The Ideal of Perfection

It is no disgrace to Christianity, it is no disgrace to any great religion, that its counsels of perfection have not made every single person perfect. ...

The Necessity of Storytelling

Prophecy can explain only so much. Storytelling is required for the rest.

An Eclipse Is Not Unseen

Take heed to yourselves also because there are many eyes upon you. So there will be many who observe your fall. If you miscarry, the world will also echo ...

Godly Behavior

Love when you expect no love in return.

Do good without expecting thanks.

Lend when you do not hope for a return.

This will make us act like the sons and ...

The Only Way to Lead

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

Dad' Responsibilities

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're ...

How to Recognize a True Preacher

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more. ... A snow storm was falling around us. The snow storm was real, the ...

The Example of Mozart

Tchaikovsky says somewhere in one of his letters that he owed to Mozart the fact that he had devoted his whole life to music. Did you catch in that sentence ...

The Example of an Abbot

An abbot ... ought to rule his disciples with a twofold teaching: displaying all goodness and holiness by deeds and by words. To intelligent disciples ...