NewTestamentChristian

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep. (1 Corinthians 15:20) ​

Favorite Prayers

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. - The Lord's Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. - The Jesus Prayer

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference. - The Serenity Prayer

God, I offer myself to Thee—to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always. - Third Step Prayer

My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good & bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you & my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here to do your bidding. - Seventh Step Prayer

Lord, make me a channel of Thy peace. That where there is hatred, I may bring love. That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness. That where there is discord, I may bring harmony. That where there is error, I may bring truth. That where there is doubt, I may bring faith. That where there is despair, I may bring hope. That where there are shadows, I may bring light. That where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted. To understand, than to be understood. To love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. - Prayer of St. Francis

My biggest intellectual heroes

Christian existentialism (Soren Kierkegaard, Nikolai Berdyaev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Christos Yannaras)

Greek philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Proclus, Cato the Younger, Musonius Rufus, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Simplicius of Cilicia, John Philoponus, Heraclitus, Pierre Hadot, Richard Sorabji)

Asian philosophy (Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Mozi, Logicians, Zen, Okakura Kakuzō, Kitaro Nishida, Hajime Tanabe, Shizuteru Ueda)

Medieval philosophy (Scotism, Thomism, Palamism, John Scotus Eriugena, Maimonides, Omar Khayyam)

Mysticism (Bernard McGinn, Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, Br. Lawrence of the Resurrection, Fr. Thomas Merton, Eavgrius Ponticus, David Bentley Hart)

Personalism (Lublin School, St. John Paul II)

Church Fathers (St. Augustine, St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Athanasius of Alexandria, St. Clement of Alexandria, St. Justin Martyr, St. Melito of Sardis, St. Basil the Great, Pseudo-Dionysius)

Psychology and Cognitive Science (Viktor Frankl, Albert Ellis, Carl Jung, Jordan Peterson, John Vervaeke)

Jesus said to him, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40)

"Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things." - Epictetus