Experience the Living Word with Bishop David Walker
We take each moment for granted. It is here and gone, often without us noticing it or being aware of its importance and richness. Yet, in some sense, it is all we have. Someone once said that it is all we do have: the past is gone, the future is not yet here; this moment…
Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. It’s surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which is not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping…
In this storm of love two spirits strive together: the spirit of God and our own spirit. God, through the Holy Spirit, inclines himself towards us; and, thereby, we are touched in love. And our spirit, by God’s workings and by the power of love, presses and inclines itself into God: and thereby, God is…
The four cardinal virtues—prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance—are central to the formation of the human person in moral philosophy. Here’s how they each contribute to character development: Together, these virtues form a framework for ethical behaviour and character formation. They influence the human person by guiding actions, shaping decisions, and fostering a moral identity aligned…
THE INTERNAL SENSE OF IMAGINATION PASSIONS PURIFICATION 1765 There are many passions. The most fundamental passion is love, aroused by the attraction of the good. Love causes a desire for the absent good and the hope of obtaining it; this movement finds completion in the pleasure and joy of the good possessed. the apprehension of…