“He is a Christian, a true Christian, who subjects himself to the rule of the one and only Word of God.”

                                                -Origen

For Reflection:

In light of this quote, am I a “true Christian”? What in me still needs to be brought into right order with the Word of God?

Mystical Evolution in the Development and Vitality of the Church
2 Volume Set  Imprimatur. 876 pages
John G. Arintero, OP
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Introduction  page I

Without the ardor of charity, which is the characteristic property and the certain indication of that interior life, all things else profit nothing.  The mere increase of organs without a corresponding vital energy would do nothing more than multiply needs and afflictions.  “Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast not increased the joy.”  But if “the flesh profits nothing,” the spirit of Jesus Christ  “gives life” and the words of our Savior are all “spirit and life”.