…Today in parks you are expected to carry a plastic bag and pick up your dog’s excrement, in order to spare others of a horrid stench and a foul sight. This is an example of what Christians should do when they see someone else’s sin.  Instead of poking it, spreading it around, making the smell worse, and getting it all over their shoes by repeating it to others, they aught to use the plastic bag of love…and end it by covering it…. -St. Paisios

“…no one in God’s Kingdom is “talentless”—we all have something that we can contribute.  God did not choose you simply to keep a seat warm for a couple of hours on Sunday morning: He chose you for greater things.  We have each been given special gifts that can be used for the glory of God.  And while some may seem to have been blessed more than others in certain ways, we can believe that everyone by virtue of his or her baptism into the family of God, have something to contribute.”

…understanding how love works is exceedingly important, not just for our marriages and families, but for our spiritual life and our relationship with God….

…He (St. John the Faster) knew deep down that our lives now, and our eternal life with the King, can be described in one simple sentence:  We are alive when we attend the wedding feast…and we die when we deny it’s invitation…. 

…This life isn’t just about just accepting and being thankful for the gifts that we have been given…it is about bearing the fruit that our predecessors could not….