Ζήσε
Lisa McMann, 2019
Religion & spirituality Young adultFantasyRomance
A Greek Orthodox priest reflects on fear, faith and the choices that make a life feel fully lived.
Feels like hope, unease and serenity. About faith, death and identity.
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Sometimes the fear of losing life begins with not quite living it.
Φοβούνται τον θάνατο περισσότερο εκείνοι που φοβούνται τη ζωή. Όσο περισσότερο είμαστε μακριά από τα όνειρα και τις επιθυμίες μας, από τον πραγματικό εαυτό μας και τις βασικές ανάγκες μας, όσο κρυβόμαστε από τη ζωή κλεισμένοι στους φόβους μας, τόσο ο θάνατος στοιχειώνει το μυαλό και την ψυχή μας. Ο φόβος του θανάτου είναι φόβος της ζωής. Lisa McMann.The author is a Greek Orthodox priest known by the pen name Father Livyos; his writing often draws on pastoral conversations and personal experience.
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- Feels like hope, unease and serenity. About faith, death and identity.
- What should I read after Ζήσε?
- If you liked Ζήσε, try Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl), Crossing the Threshold of Hope (John Paul II) and The Shack (William Paul Young).
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The people who hold the world together are never the majority.
You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to “saints.” Wouldn’t it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Man's Search for Meaning · Viktor E. Frankl
Hell is less a sentence handed down than a door locked from the inside.
Resurrection of the body is to be preceded by a judgment passed upon the works of charity, fulfilled or neglected. As a result of this judgement, the just are destined to eternal life. There is a destination to eternal damnation as well, which consists in the ultimate rejection of God, the ultimate break of the communion with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Here, it is not so much God who rejects man, but man who rejects God.
Crossing the Threshold of Hope · John Paul II
If good can come from tragedy, does that mean tragedy was required?
Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn’t mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don’t ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
The Shack · William Paul Young
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