I cannot recall those years without horror, loathing, and heart-rending pain. I killed people in war, challenged men to duels with the purpose of killing them, and lost at cards; I squandered the fruits of the peasants' toil and then had them executed; I was a fornicator and a cheat. Lying, stealing, promiscuity of every kind, drunkenness, violence, murder - there was not a crime I did not commit... Thus I lived for ten years.

Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time the…

Several times I asked myself, 'Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that t…

And the angel's body was bared, and he was clothed in light so that eye could not look on him; and his voice grew louder, as though it came not from him but fr…

Once, we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old ori…

'Gloria (In Excelsis Deo)': Jesus died For somebody's sins But not mine

What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men. For that reason a disobedience committed in a garden contaminates the human race; for that re…