About God and spiritual life

This question isn't mine, it was written in the book "Your Questions, God's Answers" (by Peter Kreeft). I've chosen this topic for today's post because our prayer is so important in leading happy life. What is the answer? We can find it on pages 66-68 of the mentioned book. The author writes: "You don't find time; you make time. To make time for anything, you must take that time away from something else. Something must be sacrificed." And then, the autor adds: "Praying means, first od all, sacrificing some time for God."  I completely agree with the author. We can and should sacrifice our time for God. He is our Creator, He gave us all we have, so we should love Him and be grateful for His love and providence. Without God's providence we couldn't do anything. All we have comes from Him: our body, our house, our belongings, our health. He loves us so much. Because of that we can and should worship God, our prayer shou...

"The Imitation of Christ" (by Thomas a Kempis) is divived into a few parts. The first part is Book One "Thoughts Helpful in The Life of the Soul". One of the chapters in Book One is entitled "Avoiding Rash Judgement".  The beginning of this chapter goes like this: "Turn your attention upon yourself and beware of judging the deeds of other men, for in judging others a man labors vainly, often makes mistakes, and easily sins; whereas, in judging and taking stock of himself he does something that is always profitable." Above sentences show us how we should think and behave, these sentences can become our guidelines, because we can hurt other people and ourselves. These guidelines seem so easy, but our nature is sinful, we are prone to commit sins. We can pray for ourselves to be better and better, our God is able to give us his graces, e.g. God can teach us to be better for our neighbours.  Our earthly days pass and we are able to be be...

Currently I am reading the book entitled "Your Questions, God's Answers" (by Peter Kreeft). There are 64 questions and the same number of answers given by the author. The answers are very important if we want to understand our Catholic faith. One of the questions is the following: "What is it to be a Christian?" The author writes that "different people will give different answers to that question". Then, he continues to explain that it is Jesus who knows the answer to that question. I will quote the author's words: "What does he say? He (Jesus) says his followers are to become parts of him, incorporated into his body. "I am the vine, and you are the branches" (Jn 15:5) - the same life, the same plant. A Christian is a branch of Christ, a part of Christ. Together, Christians are the Church, the body of Christ (Eph 5:30; Col 1:18)." I am a Catholic. I believe that all I have to know is written in the Bible. God gave us Hi...

Yesterday I managed to buy some books - some of them in Italian and some in English. Nearly all of them are connected with faith and God. I'd like to write something about one of these books, namely "Your Questions, God's Answers". The book (author: Peter Kreeft) may be useful for teenagers and their parents. On the back cover of this book we can read: "Kreeft uses Scripture to provide God's profound answers to the most common and important questions young people ask about the deeper meaning of life, their own identity, overcoming failure and temptation, the mystery of God's love, and much more." My copy was published by Ignatius Press. It consists of 121 pages. In my opinion the questions and answers (there are 64 questions) may help teenagers and their parents in their conversations. Some of the questions are: "How can I find out who I really am?", "How will the Bible help me to know myself?", "How can I understand...