My good friend told me that St Seraphim of Sarov once said the following:

God is fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. And so, if we feel in our hearts coldness, which is from the devil — for the devil is cold — then let us call upon the Lord and He will come and warm our hearts with perfect love not only for Him but for our neighbour as well.

Dearly beloved, believers in Christ Jesus, during this coming Lord's Day, ask yourself does God warm your heart. At the thought of our Lord Jesus Christ in his marvelous works for his wonderful Church, do you feel your heart warm up?

Listen, how is your thought life? Are you watching too much of the wrong stuff that causes spiritual decay? Although there are countless forms of entertainment and recreation, too much fruitless entertainment can cause spiritual decay. Just like eating too much candy can cause tooth decay, so can too much listening to and watching entertainment cause lethargic spirituality.  Believers understand that God has created us as bodily and spiritual creatures; we are essentially dichotomous creatures. St Mark the Ascetic once said the following:

A young calf starts to wander afresh after grazing, and it eventually finds itself stranded among frightful chasms. So it is with the soul, for thoughts gradually lead it astray.

I believe that it is because you can move to only one space at a time.  Theophilus of Antioch once said the following:

By God you speak, O man: His breath you breathe yet Him you know not. And this is your condition because of the blindness of your soul and the hardness of your heart. But, if you will, you may be healed. Entrust yourself to the Physician, and He will touch the eyes of your soul and of your heart.

How do you cope with a significant other, when together the two of you are on two different trajectories in life? 

There is never a truly right time to do something, the only right time is now or never. Nevertheless, the results are open for interpretation.

What is a "white lie?" It is supposedly a "harmless lie." Is it really harmless. It is ". . . a lie not intended to harm, but told in order to avoid distress or embarrassment (Encarta Dictionaries)." Do not spurn the grace of God, my child, and do not lie by denying the gift of Christ. What did our gracious forefathers think?

Blessed John, in the Historia Monachorum said the following:

For a lie is something alien regardless of whether its matter is grave or light. And if one lies with the intention of attaining some good, it is nevertheless not praiseworthy, for the Saviour said that a lie 'cometh of evil' (Mt 5.37).

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I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness towards all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the Son of God from eternity. St Athanasius once said,  "The Son of God became the Son of Man in order that the sons of men, the sons of Adam, might be made sons of God. The Word, who was begotten of the Father in heaven in an ineffable, inexplicable, incomprehensible and eternal manner, came to this earth to be born in time of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, in order that they who were born of earth might be born again of God, in heaven. ... He has bestowed upon us the first-fruits of the Holy Spirit, so that we may all become sons of God in imitation of the Son of God. Thus He, the true natural Son of God bears us all in Himself, so that we may all bear in ourselves the only God."

Today is the card that you have been dealt, know cope with it. When death comes knocking at your door like his, take it like Jesus. Do not become a specimen for a satanic society.

According to some dictionaries, humility is  "modesty or respectfulness." It may be defined as "the quality of being modest or respectful (Encarta Dictionaries). Humility is the mark of a true believer in Christ Jesus because we know that our true nature is marred by sin as a result we are surely deserving of the death that Christ received on the cross; yet, for the sake of his Son, God has cleansed our sins from us. He no longer reckons us with our sins.

The eyes of your mind is the spiritual awareness of the grace of God in Christ Jesus. "Life up the eyes of your mind to the light of the Gospel of Transfiguration, that you yourself might be transfigured as your spiritual intellect is made new. If this happens, you will draw down divine rays from on high and will be conformed to the image of the glory of the Lord, whose face shone on the mountain as radiant as the sun. "

- St Gregory Palamas

Do not use your freedom in Christ as a license to indulge in assorted licentiousness.

"The office of ruling must be tempered with such great art of moderation, that the minds of subjects, when demonstrating themselves capable of taking right views in some matters, are given freedom of expression, but freedom that does not issue into pride, otherwise, when liberty of speech is granted too generously, the humility of their own lives will be lost."

- St Gregory the Great

The secret of a successful life is so simple: Do something beautiful for God. Find a need and fill it. Find a hurt and heal it. Find a problem and solve it. Never, ever, ever compromise your integrity for the sake of others.

Abba Antony once said, 'Whoever sits in solitude and is quiet has escaped three wars: those of hearing, speaking and seeing. Then there is only one war left in which to fight, and that is the battle for your own heart'.

- Apothegmata Patrum (Latin ed.)

St John Klimakos once said the following:

Let us fear the Lord not less than we fear beasts. For I have seen men who were going to steal and were not afraid of God, but, hearing the barking of dogs, they at once turned back; and what the fear of God could not achieve was done by the fear of animals.

The beginning of wisdom is the fear the Lord our God.  The Bible tells us that "The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short ( Proverbs 10:27)." Jesus feared Jehovah (the proper name of the one true God). For everyone who believes in the name of Jesus as Christ, Jesus' righteousness is our righteousness.  God sees us as righteous because of the perfect obedience of Christ. Believers offer faithful gratitude before God out of faithfulness in Christ.