Godly friendships in a deceitful and vain world.

“The self-love and cleverness of men, alienating them from each other and perverting the law, have cut our single human nature into many fragments.”
+ St. Maximos the Confessor

There is a lack of decency, dignity, and honor among the people of the world today. We are in a throwaway and disposable society—the generation of indifference and apathy. Everyone sees everyone else as disposable or a replaceable commodity in the deceitful and vain world.

This is why it's so important to cultivate godly and heavenly friendships.

Jesus spoke about the highest form of friendship in John 15 when he said "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."