Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For …
I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what …
The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass …
Do not be afraid of Christ. He takes nothing away and he gives you everything. – Pope Benedict XVI One day you will fully realize that there is nothing in all of God’s creation to fear. That will be the moment of your liberation. – John Morton And what rough …
Count Lyov Nikolayevich Tolstoy’s War and Peace is a beautiful and fierce novel that recounts the lives of numerous Russian aristocrats both in peace and in war during the Napoleonic battles and the invasion of Russia. Within their various lives there is also an accounting of the cultural, intellectual, and …
Below is an article I wrote and published on the Huffington Post 3 years ago (can you believe it!!!) on 05/27/2015. I am re-posting it here for your viewing pleasure. The original site link, my blog over at Huffington Post, is located here – Birth of a Lion and the …
