“While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” John 12:36 . “Light is an integral part of Him and therefore can never be isolated from His own self. Indeed, He is not vulnerable to change! Consequently, all the saints are lights and they have attained light through …
“We love Him because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 . “We did not love Him first: for to this end loved He us, that we may love Him: And sent His Son to be the Atoner for our sins: “ litatorem,” i.e. one that sacrifices. He sacrificed for our sins. Where did He …
“because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” 1 John 4:4 . “Why rely on your own efforts and fall? Cast yourself into His arms. Don’t be afraid. He will not let you slip. Cast yourself in confidence. Christ will receive you and heal you.” St. Augustine #ChristisGreater …
“My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” 1John 3:18 . “For in nothing do we draw close to God as in doing good to man. Though God does the greater things, the man the less; yet each, I believe, according to his capacity. He …
“and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.” – Ephesians 2:16 . “No expression could be more authoritative or more emphatic. His death, he says, killed the enmity, wounded and destroyed it. He did not give the task to another. And he …
