Faith is the beginning of love.

Evagrios of Pontus

All that is best, that attracts our spiritual gaze and the inclinations of our heart in man, is from God, from His Son, and from His Spirit…

God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the air or light, nearer than my wife, father, mother, daughter, son, or friend. I live in Him, soul and body.  I breathe in Him, think in Him, feel, consider, intend, speak, undertake, work in Him.  “For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.”

St John of Kronstadt