For the Christian, Everything Should Serve for Edification – Kierkegaard
… it may well seem to them too rigorous to be edifying, and too edifying to be strictly scientific …. From the Christian point of view everything, indeed everything should serve for edification.… This relation of the Christian teaching to life (in contrast with a scientific aloofness from life), or this ethical side of Christianity, […]
What I Must Do – Not What I Must Know – Kierkegaard
Seeing what the Deity really wants me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Eight Deadly Thoughts: Diogenes Allen
“These eight deadly thoughts are like cholesterol, they fill the arteries, so to speak, and the flow of the Spirit is not able to get through easily, and sometime, choked off all together.” These thoughts assail us unbidden – It is important to realize that the thoughts themselves are not sin. Christ was tempted, yet […]
The Interior Castle or the Mansions – Teresa of Avila – The Soul’s Union with God
A mystic believes that people have the ability to interact with deity, the extent varies. A Christian Mystic believes that our purpose is to have this union with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit discloses to us that which belongs to the Son, and the Son says, “All […]
This Is the Sin of Anger
If you brood over an injury, past or present, you will soon feel the painful desire and thirst for revenge. This is the sin of Anger. Cloud of Unknowing
When Is Someone Humble?
A man is humble when he stands in the truth with a knowledge and appreciation for himself as he really is. Cloud of Unknowing