Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.
The devotee engages to the best of his ability into the play of life, fulfilling his role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife, parent, neighbor, and community servant. But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust. God watches them play and forgets the priest.
God Himself told me that the most basic and central truth of the universe is that God is the Father and we are His children. We are all created as children of God.
