You become a Christian by being baptized. It is perhaps difficult in this incredulous age to believe that God can change our inmost being by a ceremony. Yet such is the Christian faith. It is God who works the change. You have to co-operate, and co-operating with God involves sacrifice: but it...
One day in Florence a man might have been seen turning hurriedly from the crowded streets into the cloisters of a monastery where he walked up and down restlessly, eagerly drinking in the peace of the silent sanctuary. Presently a monk approached, his countenance lighted by supernatural joy, and...
It is a very troublesome thought that so many persons have lofty and sincere aspirations after high things, and so few reach them; that so many are called to perfection, and so few answer the call; that so many begin ardently and prudently and yet die leaving their tower unbuilt; that so many...
GeneralRegistered Users — Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves. — Matthew 10:16