“When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed.” MenWayNeedsSpiritualMovingStrongKingsMathematicsSlaveHumbleServantRealmsLatterAmbitiousGodlinessWorship GodParalyzedDeductionsNeed God Author:Criss Jami
“I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.” WayTryingYearsKindSchoolSpiritualSufferingReligiousBoysAchieveHigh SchoolCatholicRaisedLatterCatholicismEmbeddedMartyrdomPenancePrivate School Author:James Balog
“Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.” MenInspirationalFirstsChristianSpiritualSufferingPassionReligiousSinCuttingHumilityLatterOrthodox Author:Maximus the Confessor