God, says Bernard, has not cast us out of paradise to seek another paradise in this world. No, we are born to labor. Why do you seek the living among the dead? Why do you seek for living comforts, when you must expect to die daily? […]
An earthly saint is a contradiction. The Greek word for saint signifies a person refined and separated from the earth. If an astronomer, instead of observing the planets, and the motions of the heavens, should take a reed in his hand and fall to measuring the […]
The glorious presence of God that the saints shall have of God in heaven is a great part of their happiness. Heaven would not be heaven without the presence of God. The presence of God in the most miserable place possible would be a greater happiness […]
Nothing will rob you of the joy of God’s grace like a low view of God, of Christ’s sacrifice, and of the glory of heaven. To set our minds on the things above, to lay up our treasures in heaven and not on the earth, and […]
Jesus of Nazareth, born in the line and city of David, is the long awaited King. He is King of Israel and all the nations of the world. But Jesus was–and is–not the King of popular expectation. “He was in the world, and the world was […]