Holiness: Down and Dirty

The real mark of spiritual triumph--the possession of that more lovely, more abundant life which we discern in moments of deep prayer--is not an abstraction ...

Holiness Is Health

God is holy and holiness (is) the moral condition necessary to the health of his universe. ...Whatever is holy is healthy, ...the holiness of God, the ...

Prayer: Giving as Well as Getting

Prayer is not simply to get things from God, but to make those things holy which already have been received from Him. It is not merely to get a blessing, ...

Prayer's Alchemy

Prayer makes common things holy and secular things sacred. It receives things from God with thanksgiving and hallows them with thankful hearts and devoted ...

God with Us

We cannot avoid the dangers and the reefs of which this life is full, without the real and constant help of God. Let us ask him for it without ceasing. ...

Teamwork Toward Holiness

Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves--on God's grace and our will to be holy. We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ...

The Ripening of Mr. Simeon

I don't think I have yet mentioned one of my great heroes, Charles Simeon. Charles Simeon was the senior pastor, or vicar, as we call it in the Episcopal ...

Soul Remodeling

A sentence in one of the books [I was reading on osteoporosis prevention] struck me most: "Like all living tissue, bone is constantly being broken ...

Punished for Righteousness

A 16th century man who did not drink to excess, curse, or abuse his workmen or family could be suspected of being an Anabaptist and thus persecuted.

Frightening Zeal

David McCullough in his book Mornings on Horseback tells this story about young Teddy Roosevelt:

"Mittie (his mother) had found he was so afraid of ...