Joshua

“The "modern man" has "come of age" as a deadly serious adult, conscious of his sufferings and alienations but not of joy, of sex but not of love, of science but not of "mystery.”
― Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy

“Living in the kingdom of God is a matter of living with God's action in our lives.”
― Dallas Willard, Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God

“When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.”
― John Chrysostom

“However, this saving grace can be stunted. We can stop at this point where we will be actually saved; but, we will not be working out our salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12). The person can live and die only at the stage of being saved and Christ will not be formed in him. If this happens, we will be infants in Christ; we will live a very superficial Christian life and a life that is full of struggles and conflicts. Paul calls it a life according to the flesh and in other places in the Bible it is called the state of spiritual childhood.”
― Atef Meshreky, The Inner Man & the Formation of Christ