“Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.”
“In the seventh century, John of Damascus described the relationship of the three persons of God as perichoresis. This word literally means "the circle dance.”
“Have you ever noticed that just before something big happens in life, there is a crisis of some sort?”
“To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality.”
“The First Testament gives the baseline meaning to the gospel in the promise of God that will not be thwarted by anyone or anything. The New Testament gives us the fulfillment in the form of a person. These testaments are meant to be read in parallel, allowing each testament to illuminate the other.”
“The only way to engage god is to meet one of the three in time. We meet the Father as Creator, the Son as Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit as the dispenser of God's grace.”
“God, in eternity, exists in a dynamic mutuality co-equally and co-eternally - three "modes of being" or "persons" and yet one essence. It is a dynamic, fluid movement that does not change in essence.”