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On Marriage and Family Life by John Chrysostom
4.0
inspiring reflective fast-paced

"Let everything take second place to our care for our children, our bringing them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. If from the beginning we teach them to love true wisdom, they will have greater wealth and glory than riches can provide [...] if you want to make your child rich, teach him this."

A small collection of homilies that are strangely timely. How little the human heart changes; how we have struggled with the whispers of sin and vice throughout history. It is a bracing consolation, to know that we are not the most wretched yet. Much of what is contained here could be given as a sermon today and still be relevant.