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1 LawGod,26| the brotherhood" (1 Pt.2:17). In practice, communism
2 LawGod,6 | self-deceit."~The eminent 17th century philosopher Spinoza
3 LawGod,19| multitude of sins" (Js. 5:20).~In concluding these words
4 LawGod,6 | cross and follow Me" (Mt. 16:24). Again, in the Old Testament
5 LawGod,5 | the law of Moses (Mk. 12:29-31). The Holy Apostle Paul
6 LawGod,6 | the Lord thy God" (Dent. 30:15-19).~
7 LawGod,5 | law of Moses (Mk. 12:29-31). The Holy Apostle Paul
8 LawGod,22| have love among you" (Jn.13:39) said the Lord Jesus Christ
9 LawGod,8 | blessedness. We know that humility abases and judges one. Often, however,
10 LawGod,23| with each other and the aberration of divorces.~Christian marriage
11 LawGod,3 | damaged all three of the basic abilities and powers of the soul;
12 LawGod,19| told, "False lips are an abomination before the Lord..."~Especially
13 LawGod,9 | of my father's hirelings abound in bread, but 1, his son,
14 LawGod,9 | where sin has multiplied, an abundance of Grace appears to instruct
15 LawGod,20| falsely, argumentativeness, abusive speech. How strange it is:
16 LawGod,11| that a Christian, while accepting worldly education, places
17 LawGod,17| this very wealth opens the access to all other seductions
18 LawGod,6 | action, man acts only in accordance with external causes. According
19 LawGod,8 | from the reproaches and accusations.~The Lord says, "Blessed
20 LawGod,13| often thick-skinned egoists, accustomed only to demanding and receiving
21 LawGod,6 | weeps over his sin, clearly acknowledging that he could have acted
22 LawGod,22| and only from love do they acquire their worth.~"Love is longsuffering
23 LawGod,14| good habits are a valuable acquisition for the soul and, therefore,
24 LawGod,24| united with its whole. It actively participates in the society'
25 LawGod,2 | guides all of his life and activities.~
26 LawGod,3 | not even the first man, Adam, remained sinless. He lost
27 LawGod,12| In another psalm, he addresses nature as if it were conscious,
28 LawGod,21| nevertheless that their adherents are often completely orderly
29 LawGod,17| golden idol) to which man adheres with all his soul and heart,
30 LawGod,13| soft, spoiled and not well adjusted for life, often thick-skinned
31 LawGod,19| social charity which is not administered by chance, but is planned
32 LawGod,11| education now, when past pagan admixtures have disappeared from learning
33 LawGod,24| up through childhood and adolescent years, one develops personal,
34 LawGod,15| or public institution, to adopt an orphan, to make a pilgrimage,
35 LawGod,19| blind person or to a beggar, adopting poor orphans, etc. Examples
36 LawGod,23| stronger in a child than in an adult. This is followed by a situation
37 LawGod,23| they have already become adults and independent people.~
38 LawGod,21| only one's own personal advantage, but the common good, common
39 LawGod,21| captivated by them. They advise that one ought rather to
40 LawGod,20| self-love. St John of Kronstadt advises us not only not to be angry
41 LawGod,12| phenomenon, or work of art. An aesthetically educated person is able
42 LawGod,17| How could the Holy Church affirm the untruth?~
43 LawGod,6 | of love. The Lord Himself affirmed this freedom, "If anyone
44 LawGod,23| self-willed they become, alas, affronting their parents, reproaching
45 LawGod,19| children, the ill or the aged, etc. Without a doubt, charity
46 LawGod,23| animal passions, only an "agitation of young blood" (and sometimes
47 LawGod,6 | understanding of human freedom, agreeing with indeterminism. Applying
48 LawGod,17| acquiring," to seeking gain and aiming for it.~In order to prevent
49 LawGod,25| and with proud personal aims. On the contrary, the less
50 LawGod,4 | remain suspended in the air, but will fall downward.~
51 LawGod,17| world already addicted to alcohol or other drugs. We already
52 LawGod,17| steadiness in the use of alcoholic drinks. Of course, one would
53 LawGod,3 | soul (such is the vice of alcoholism, narcotic addiction, etc.).
54 LawGod,23| personalities becomes so all-comprehensive and full, the mutual dedication
55 LawGod,9 | meet him and accepts him, all-forgiven and with as much love as
56 LawGod,18| demanding of themselves, were so all-forgiving and compassionate to others,
57 LawGod,19| anyone, except for the, All-seeing God. And many - especially
58 LawGod,11| significance of Christianity as an all-sided and finished system of learning
59 LawGod,16| edifying subjects. If one allows oneself to be inflamed by
60 LawGod,16| describing it in the most alluring colors, with complete shamelessness.
61 LawGod,19| first are the giving of alms to a blind person or to
62 LawGod,2 | the flame burning on their altar. The torturers supposed
63 LawGod,5 | Christians. Christianity has not altered them. On the contrary, Christianity
64 LawGod,6 | and the given example is altogether unconvincing.~The insolvency
65 LawGod,8 | God's Kingdom. Moreover, amidst ascetics of Christianity,
66 | amongst
67 LawGod,15| what?) and toward being amused ... Rest and amusement are
68 LawGod,6 | actions of the flying stone analogous with man's actions. This
69 LawGod,3 | to sin inherited from our ancestors, each person commits their
70 LawGod,13| neither shall there be anguish nor grief nor pain anymore..." "
71 LawGod,23| is, alas, in essence only animal passions, only an "agitation
72 LawGod,26| paradise (a paradise of animalistic satiety and spiritual reprobation).
73 LawGod,1 | far exceeds that. Popadija Anna Krosnjar, a dedicated and
74 LawGod,9 | us of a young son who is annoyed by the careful guardianship
75 LawGod,10| repentance, Holy Communion, anointing and various prayers and
76 LawGod,6 | a case he would not have answered for his action.~We Christians
77 LawGod,3 | it is a den and source of anti-moral predisposition's, strivings
78 LawGod,11| religion and they add their anti-religious views to scientific truths.
79 LawGod,13| anguish nor grief nor pain anymore..." "And eternal joy will
80 LawGod,26| really speak of "brotherhood" anyway, there where class struggle,
81 LawGod,24| if its family unit falls apart and there are no bases of
82 LawGod,27| highest, we rise to their apex - our obligations in relationship
83 LawGod,23| disappearance of slavery, the appearance of a whole series of institutions
84 LawGod,26| communism which has now appeared as an attempt to realize
85 LawGod,6 | agreeing with indeterminism. Applying it to the realm of morals,
86 LawGod,7 | strive for, if haply I might apprehend, that for which I am apprehended
87 LawGod,21| by religious feelings - apprehension to violate the law of Highest
88 LawGod,22| Corinthians. This chapter is appropriately called "the hymn of Christian
89 LawGod,2 | to a person, or has drawn approval from others, but in the
90 LawGod,12| Orthodoxy everywhere - in church architecture, in the divine services,
91 LawGod,1 | us such a holy and loving archpastor as Metropolitan Philaret
92 LawGod,20| times - speaking falsely, argumentativeness, abusive speech. How strange
93 LawGod,9 | dying from hunger."~"I shall arise," he decides, "and go to
94 LawGod,20| the blasphemous heretic Arius on the cheek. This anger
95 LawGod,20| Nicholas the Wonderworker was aroused when, at the First Ecumenical
96 LawGod,13| Christian families, life is arranged in such a way that the parents
97 LawGod,13| bright Christian hope will arrive when life finally triumphs
98 LawGod,23| work of many of the best artists and scientists bears a clearly
99 LawGod,27| for God and For Neighbor~Ascending from our most simple obligations
100 LawGod,10| expressed by the fifth century ascetic, Righteous St John Cassian,
101 LawGod,23| such a marriage, when the ascetic-spouses live "as brother and sister,"
102 LawGod,3 | strugglers of Christian asceticism and piety, knowing the sinful
103 LawGod,19| what it is that will be asked of us first above all at
104 LawGod,9 | father, and came to him asking for his share of the inheritance.
105 LawGod,5 | Jewish nation. The second aspect is gone into the past for
106 LawGod,4 | heaven has endured violent assault and violent men seize it
107 LawGod,26| the press, nor freedom to assemble, nor the inviolability of
108 LawGod,15| pledges only after having assessed his strength and resolved
109 LawGod,1 | chapter. This is of great assistance not only to local church-school
110 LawGod,17| the apostle warns that bad associations deprave good morals.~There
111 LawGod,13| inseparably tied with the assurance of His Fatherly love and
112 LawGod,6 | hearken, and thou shalt go astray ... ye shall utterly perish ...
113 LawGod,26| Communism is supposedly an atheistic system which renounces all
114 LawGod,8 | God-bearing Fathers - the athletes and lamps of Christian piety -
115 LawGod,23| passionate love enters into the attachment only incidentally, and never
116 LawGod,3 | of sensuality and earthly attachments. It is tainted with vainglory
117 LawGod,26| which has now appeared as an attempt to realize the ideas of
118 LawGod,23| inclination and purely physical attraction, also enters into Christian
119 LawGod,19| has become the favorite attribute of almost all conversation.
120 LawGod,20| unkind heart. Then a person attunes his own heart to anger and
121 LawGod,14| and not unconditional or authentic. From practical life? Even
122 LawGod,25| all statements that war is avoidable.~True, we have already examined
123 LawGod,21| behavior at the Judgment. What awaits the eudemonistic egoist
124 LawGod,2 | morality. Every person is aware that his or her actions
125 LawGod,2 | character of their actions (babies, those deprived of reason,
126 LawGod,2 | martyrs would jerk their hands back, dropping the incense into
127 LawGod,23| to their face for their "backwardness" and not considering their
128 LawGod,2 | despair or a loss of mental balance if one does not restore
129 LawGod,26| purely violent means, not balking at any measure, even the
130 LawGod,13| persecuted and oppressed and banished for Christ's truth.~
131 LawGod,9 | there is a full spiritual bankruptcy, a spiritual hunger and
132 LawGod,10| committed by the one being baptized. Nevertheless, the seeds
133 LawGod,5 | for eternal salvation and beatitude. To attain this, a man must
134 LawGod,15| the necessity of work: "We beg you, brethren ... to go
135 LawGod,19| to a blind person or to a beggar, adopting poor orphans,
136 LawGod,19| misuse it by constantly begging or employing deceit and
137 LawGod,22| not spare even His Only Begotten Son. The Son of God came
138 LawGod,14| little by little. Having begun to exercise one's will in
139 | behind
140 LawGod,21| principle of usefulness, or beneficialness, cannot be established as
141 LawGod,20| is: people have become so benumbed and blind that they consider
142 LawGod,22| He gave His faithful a bequeath, a commandment and ideal
143 | besides
144 LawGod,24| which the good Samaritan bestowed upon the robbed and wounded
145 LawGod,9 | son senselessly decided to betray his father, and came to
146 LawGod,24| and considered him to be a betrayer of the faith of their fathers.
147 LawGod,23| and woe if their authority betrays that feeling of trust, a
148 LawGod,12| regarded lilies of the field, birds, fig trees and grape vines.
149 LawGod,20| Son of God, during Whose birth the angels sang: "And on
150 LawGod,23| the Church, especially the bishops, and also the pastor who
151 LawGod,26| in history as a sworn and bitter enemy of Christianity. For
152 LawGod,17| illness, but in any case is "blameless and peaceful." One prepares
153 LawGod,3 | who and what can change a blasphemer who has seen and known the
154 LawGod,3 | nevertheless hates Him, blasphemes Him and is in adversity
155 LawGod,20| Ecumenical Council he struck the blasphemous heretic Arius on the cheek.
156 LawGod,20| tongue." "See how great a blaze a tiny spark can kindle.
157 LawGod,6 | thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose thou
158 LawGod,15| into "white collar" and "blue collar" work. Such divisions
159 LawGod,23| family, Apostle Paul says bluntly and quite clearly. "If anyone
160 LawGod,2 | this is a sin."~In a tight bond with this action of judging,
161 LawGod,19| far fewer of those vital bonds of personal love and trust
162 LawGod,19| within are full of dead bones and corruption ... The vice
163 LawGod,26| idea of "brotherhood" was borrowed from the Christians who
164 LawGod,18| than these legal norms and boundaries, to make concessions and
165 LawGod,20| the tongue is a fire, a boundless iniquity ... an unruly member,
166 LawGod,22| then I am as clanging brass and a tinkling cymbal" (
167 LawGod,9 | father's hirelings abound in bread, but 1, his son, am dying
168 LawGod,12| Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord ... Praise
169 LawGod,26| by which the Church has breathed from the first. Moreover,
170 LawGod,26| Rather, it is an inheritance bred of that spirit of love by
171 LawGod,20| to be pious but does not bridle his tongue, he is deceiving
172 LawGod,4 | eternity. The earthly life is brief and it does not repeat itself,
173 LawGod,19| is planned and organized, bringing many substantial benefits.
174 LawGod,24| together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings."(Lk.13:
175 LawGod,15| paradise. "In the sweat of your brow you will eat your food."
176 LawGod,25| rights, or against seizure, brutal invasion and violence. Only
177 LawGod,15| parable about the unwise builder. In the parable, the man
178 LawGod,26| any considerations. The builders of this type of communism
179 LawGod,16| Of course such a person builds upon the natural sexual
180 LawGod,23| beautiful. Life, however, can be built only on truth; it cannot
181 LawGod,26| but instead, there is a bureaucratic dictatorship over the proletariat.
182 LawGod,2 | spirit that they preferred to burn their hands and not drop
183 LawGod,17| And how could the Church bury a suicide according to Her
184 LawGod,25| eminent commander of the Byzantine armies, was received into
185 LawGod,25| unselfishly - free of any material calculations and considerations. A person
186 LawGod,24| and worshipped a golden calf. Then, the justice of God'
187 LawGod,19| home" to avoid a guest or caller; to claim to be ill, while
188 LawGod,2 | does not restore peace and calmness in the soul through deep
189 LawGod,17| that the Holy Church by its canons, withholds a Christian burial
190 LawGod,24| life, the people remain capable of carrying on life and
191 LawGod,8 | add only evil - self-love, caprices of sensuality, and sinful
192 LawGod,21| recommend that one not be captivated by them. They advise that
193 LawGod,23| and give them over to be cared for by hired persons, forgetting
194 LawGod,15| against vows which are made carelessly, without thought and not
195 LawGod,14| be weak-willed and cannot carry out his plans in life, no
196 LawGod,19| trust such as are formed in cases of personal help; but then,
197 LawGod,10| ascetic, Righteous St John Cassian, whose explanation is called
198 LawGod,24| Samaritan, and especially by its categorical conclusion. In this parable,
199 LawGod,14| in principles, since it ceaselessly widens, deepens and changes
200 LawGod,5 | significance only because its central commandments (the ten which
201 LawGod,11| the Church in the ancient centuries speaks against this erroneous
202 LawGod,7 | personal toils and efforts (Lk. Ch.16). Neither the body of
203 LawGod,3 | that it forges his will in chains. Here, one is almost powerless
204 LawGod,19| which is not administered by chance, but is planned and organized,
205 LawGod,14| ceaselessly widens, deepens and changes much. From philosophy? But
206 LawGod,15| Work is an indispensable characteristic of every virtue of man which
207 LawGod,14| otherwise, he will be a characterless person, not presenting himself
208 LawGod,2 | they dropped it, who would charge that they had brought sacrifice
209 LawGod,16| preserve oneself pure and chaste to struggle with the temptation
210 LawGod,20| anyone strikes your right check, turn your left one to him
211 LawGod,20| blasphemous heretic Arius on the cheek. This anger came from a
212 LawGod,7 | are called egoists and who cherish and are concerned very much
213 LawGod,24| itself or turn itself into a "chicken coop." Such a life is family
214 LawGod,24| Gradually growing up through childhood and adolescent years, one
215 LawGod,24| surely I must also love the Chinese, the Turks or any other
216 LawGod,4 | developing in himself a good, Christian-valued foundation. This work on
217 LawGod,24| Christ. In conclusion, let us cite these words of Apostle Paul (
218 LawGod,24| according to which man is a "citizen of the universe," and not
219 LawGod,24| Himself, but for this, His city, and about the ruin of those
220 LawGod,16| imagination. It is often claimed that sexual need acts with
221 LawGod,26| political propaganda, communism claims that it is attaining the
222 LawGod,22| Apostle says, "then I am as clanging brass and a tinkling cymbal" (
223 LawGod,10| kingdom of God." Further, He clarified this saying, "except one
224 LawGod,3 | vices and passions can be cleansed by repentance and become
225 LawGod,25| poor indeed.~One of the clearest and most self-denying struggles
226 LawGod,5 | voice have lost their firm clearness and strength. It is not
227 LawGod,19| youth - try to seem more clever, more beautiful, more gifted,
228 LawGod,21| eudemonistic ideas are often cloaked in a mantle of Christian
229 LawGod,5 | national-ceremonial which was closely tied with the history and
230 LawGod,25| his life for others, the closer he approaches to the martyr'
231 LawGod,19| drink; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was ill and you comforted
232 LawGod,16| and heart of man - this cloud of temptations moves upon
233 LawGod,26| indicative, since comrades can be co-participants (but not brethren) in any
234 LawGod,19| Thus, every liar is a co-worker and device of the devil.
235 LawGod,5 | only seek out features of coarseness and cruelty. This is a mistaken
236 LawGod,2 | have moral norms lower, coarser, more malformed than Orthodox
237 LawGod,19| them to finely finished coffins which are beautiful on the
238 LawGod,21| concept of "beneficial" seldom coincides with the concept of "good"
239 LawGod,23| teaching and instruction" (Col. 3:21; Eph.6:4). To demand
240 LawGod,16| it in the most alluring colors, with complete shamelessness.
241 LawGod,3 | external goods, riches, comforts, immoral dances, dirty literature,
242 LawGod,25| Tornikian of Georgia, an eminent commander of the Byzantine armies,
243 LawGod,6 | thou wilt hearken to the commands of the Lord thy God, which
244 LawGod,20| Lord expects of us and has commended to us. Yet, many people
245 LawGod,20| calls upon us not only to commiserate with those who are weeping,
246 LawGod,26| the concept and reality of communal property is a bright, idealistically
247 LawGod,26| possessions to be their own."~The communalism of property in Soviet communism
248 LawGod,26| No wonder, then, that the communists struggle so maliciously
249 LawGod,18| legally just persons are comparatively orderly, since they fulfil
250 LawGod,3 | and the man is humbled (compare Apostle Peter before and
251 LawGod,25| answer for the blood of your compatriots whom you did not wish to
252 LawGod,24| all-embracing love, then are we not compelled to accept cosmopolitanism -
253 LawGod,20| own vanity and egoistic competitiveness are at the basis of this
254 LawGod,19| this we must add false "compliments," flattery, praise, etc.).
255 LawGod,12| beauty in a good picture, composition or literary work. He can
256 LawGod,18| Its basic, wise, clear and comprehensible principle is expressed in
257 LawGod,11| learning and it strives for a comprehension of pure truth. It is true
258 LawGod,26| brother" for the word "comrade." This is very indicative,
259 LawGod,26| is very indicative, since comrades can be co-participants (
260 LawGod,15| Christian must learn to concentrate, to gather himself together.
261 LawGod,7 | precisely the center, the concentration of the spiritual life; it
262 LawGod,7 | and who cherish and are concerned very much with their "I."
263 LawGod,21| utilitarian principle in a concise form: "Act in a way that
264 LawGod,23| observe how marriages are concluded not through a serious, deep,
265 LawGod,24| Christianity. It does not condemn, despite the false views
266 LawGod,18| justice demands from us condescension towards others. Even this,
267 LawGod,18| to make concessions and condescensions. This type of person can
268 LawGod,22| not proud nor unseemly in conduct." It makes one patient,
269 LawGod,9 | son was about to begin his confession: "Father, I have sinned
270 LawGod,3 | repentance and become a confessor of the Truth, but who and
271 LawGod,2 | the fire. In fact, these confessors of the faith were usually
272 LawGod,19| considered quite usual to confirm something whether or not
273 LawGod,2 | those moral demands which confront a person's soul in all his
274 LawGod,23| course, passionate love, connected with each person's natural
275 LawGod,18| work with such correct, conscientious people. Still, this is far
276 LawGod,15| fulfil their obligations conscientiously, in an Orthodox Christian
277 LawGod,23| Thus does Christianity consecrate, elevate and transform a
278 LawGod,16| into a bright wedded union consecrated by God through the Church,
279 LawGod,10| moments and means of the consecrating of a Christian. According
280 LawGod,16| a path of virginity, a consecration of oneself to God and neighbors, -
281 LawGod,20| this is "nonsense," "of no consequence," forgetting about those
282 LawGod,23| their "backwardness" and not considering their authority in anything.
283 LawGod,8 | For you have received your consolation. Woe unto you who are full!
284 LawGod,23| upon them. Further, such consoling phenomena as the disappearance
285 LawGod,7 | gifts (like materials in the construction of a building) for the building
286 LawGod,14| and secondly, it does not contain anything solid and constant
287 LawGod,3 | toxin of this sinfulness contaminated the entire human race, which
288 LawGod,12| the prophet-king David, contemplating the beauty and majesty of
289 LawGod,17| for such an end by prayer, contemplation and partaking of the Holy
290 LawGod,22| relationship to man is a continuous history of the self-sacrifice
291 LawGod,23| impartial person would doubt or contradict the fact of its influence
292 LawGod,7 | laws of Heaven's Truth are contradictory to the laws of earthly benefit.
293 LawGod,11| erroneously assume that science contradicts religion and they add their
294 LawGod,16| complete shamelessness. Contrived music, dances and entertainments
295 LawGod,17| strength - if he could really control himself and not yield to
296 LawGod,9 | sinner, but that he should be converted and live." The prodigal
297 LawGod,19| spiritual help, "He who converts the sinner from the error
298 LawGod,22| explains, with unshakable conviction, how much higher it is than
299 LawGod,23| Even those children who are convinced that they sincerely and
300 LawGod,24| turn itself into a "chicken coop." Such a life is family
301 LawGod,10| explanation is called synergism (cooperating). According to this teaching,
302 LawGod,10| struggle (man's efforts in cooperation with God's Grace). For,
303 LawGod,18| endures all things." (I Cor.13:7).~
304 LawGod,23| they must live a common, cordial life. The head of the family
305 LawGod,26| and fragrance, the rotting corpse of the often-embalmed Lenin
306 LawGod,18| purely pagan.~Justice of Correctness: In the moral respect, this
307 LawGod,16| but also from sins which corrupt, defile and weaken it. Among
308 LawGod,3 | conscious seducers and corrupters of youth about whom the
309 LawGod,16| rottenness and pestilence, corrupting and killing the mind and
310 LawGod,7 | means - even though at the cost of suffering and misfortune
311 LawGod,6 | the features of his moral countenance. In this recognition of
312 LawGod,24| stubbornly than did his fellow countrymen. They hated Paul and considered
313 LawGod,11| particularly clearly seen in the courses in Christian morality and
314 LawGod,18| compassionate to others, covering the faults of their neighbors,
315 LawGod,26| pragmatism, pursuing the goal of creating an earthly paradise (a paradise
316 LawGod,7 | one in the course of this creativity, to distinguish good and
317 LawGod,4 | the nature of man by his Creator. It is found in a pure and
318 LawGod,2 | Responsibility~Of all the creatures on earth, only man has an
319 LawGod,22| those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even
320 LawGod,24| rode into Jerusalem to the cries of "Hosanna," when all the
321 LawGod,17| terrible thing, e.g., a criminal dying in the middle of a
322 LawGod,24| in a few days would cry, "Crucify Him!" Thus did He love His
323 LawGod,13| Life can break such people cruelly and sometimes punishes them
324 LawGod,18| the neighbor. But can this crush the feeling of trust and
325 LawGod,1 | during the era of our "youth cult," it has been popular to
326 LawGod,6 | situation, one's education, cultural development, etc., act upon
327 LawGod,24| civil obligations and by culture and customs. One is bound
328 LawGod,17| created certain things for curative use. Orthodoxy, however,
329 LawGod,17| Christian should not seek to be cured by doctors. Doctors and
330 LawGod,20| Envy; Cursing And Anger~When the Lord
331 LawGod,24| Apostle says, "I would be cut off from Christ for the
332 LawGod,11| is a completely finished cycle, a system of corresponding
333 LawGod,22| clanging brass and a tinkling cymbal" (like spiritless objects
334 LawGod,25| Mohammedans, about war, St. Cyril the Enlightener of the Slavs
335 LawGod,24| person with whom he meets in daily life. Christian life is
336 LawGod,11| knowledge, of the most varied data relating not only to the
337 LawGod,23| mother: to raise a son or daughter as a believing Christian,
338 LawGod,5 | before himself in broad daylight seems strange, then how
339 LawGod,20| unruly member, evil, full of deadly poison..." And again he
340 LawGod,22| for themselves; they are dear to him in themselves and
341 LawGod,19| comfort and understanding are dearer than any material support.
342 LawGod,12| enlighten man's soul but rather debases and soils it.~
343 LawGod,18| through a conscious desire to deceive, misuse the trust of the
344 LawGod,3 | making them stronger and more deceptive, and also tempting us by
345 LawGod,9 | father. The son senselessly decided to betray his father, and
346 LawGod,6 | freedom of will in man. They declare that in each separate action,
347 LawGod,6 | virtue and sin, Christianity declares that man's freedom is his
348 LawGod,24| will come to a condition of decline and disintegration if its
349 LawGod,6 | but completely inevitable deduction from determinism. Secondly,
350 LawGod,25| prayers. Nevertheless, if God deems it expedient to use both
351 LawGod,14| since it ceaselessly widens, deepens and changes much. From philosophy?
352 LawGod,3 | But even at this point, defeat of sin is not entirely difficult.
353 LawGod,3 | sin, he does not sin, but defeats sin and his soul will experience
354 LawGod,19| One of the most important defects of contemporary society
355 LawGod,3 | and infirm, are specially defended by Christ against those
356 LawGod,25| A Christian soldier is a defender of the homeland, and clearly
357 LawGod,6 | century philosopher Spinoza defends this opinion. As an example,
358 LawGod,15| a person notices himself deficient in any way - not helpful
359 LawGod,16| from sins which corrupt, defile and weaken it. Among such
360 LawGod,7 | blessed, eternal life.~We define the task of the entire life
361 LawGod,13| hope. Christian hope can be defined as a sincere, vivid remembrance
362 LawGod,6 | anyone and anything, of defining for ourselves concerning
363 LawGod,19| love towards neighbors must definitely be expressed in works of
364 LawGod,6 | According to learned theological definition, "freedom of the will is
365 LawGod,16| of corruption and sexual degeneracy which are without a doubt
366 LawGod,14| meet people with various degrees of strength of will. It
367 LawGod,12| they appear to us. Such delight in beauty can either reach
368 LawGod,17| proverb says, "Give the demon a finger and it will take
369 LawGod,10| against this teaching, and demonstrated the necessity of the Lord'
370 LawGod,3 | in many respects it is a den and source of anti-moral
371 LawGod,3 | Peter before and after his denial of Christ). But even at
372 LawGod,23| his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than
373 LawGod,6 | love the Lord thy God" (Dent. 30:15-19).~
374 LawGod,6 | be My disciple, let him deny himself and take up his
375 LawGod,23| of them, loving, toiling, denying themselves in much, raising
376 LawGod,9 | Having received it, he departed into a distant country.
377 LawGod,9 | burning through his life," and departs, in heart and soul, further
378 LawGod,16| degeneration of morals and a departure from a pure, ordered Orthodox
379 LawGod,6 | and impulses which do not depend upon him, and usually submits
380 LawGod,17| warns that bad associations deprave good morals.~There is another
381 LawGod,16| imagination, it means that one has depraved and ruined oneself. In order
382 LawGod,22| torments, nor sorrow, nor deprivations, nor disenchantment. And
383 LawGod,2 | their actions (babies, those deprived of reason, etc). or those
384 LawGod,17| the Holy Church, and thus deprives himself of his burial. And
385 LawGod,2 | from others, but in the depths of the soul this person
386 LawGod,20| cold lack of understanding, derision, enmity and counteraction.
387 LawGod,11| versa (from this fact, we derive the saying, "In matters
388 LawGod,3 | entire human race, which descended from its forbears who had
389 LawGod,21| satisfactions. Apostle Paul described the basic ideal of such
390 LawGod,16| other in praising sin and describing it in the most alluring
391 LawGod,19| the form of pretending and desiring to seem to be what one is
392 LawGod,24| Christianity. It does not condemn, despite the false views of cosmopolitanists,
393 LawGod,23| strength only plunges them into despondency. There is an even greater
394 LawGod,19| valuable. Sometimes, for a despondent person, a simple word of
395 LawGod,6 | to be fools consciously destroying themselves. Thus, in the
396 LawGod,3 | but is even difficult to detect in its approach and process.~
397 LawGod,6 | following. Firstly, not a single determinist effects his teaching in
398 LawGod,6 | at life from a strictly deterministic point of view, there is
399 LawGod,19| liar is a co-worker and device of the devil. Already in
400 LawGod,19| falsehood is singularly devilish, for the very word "devil"
401 LawGod,23| by a special strength of devotion, all-embracing fidelity
402 LawGod,3 | about seeking whom he might devour."~
403 LawGod,5 | his life according to the dictates of his conscience, in which
404 LawGod,22| Incarnate, suffered and died so that He, through the
405 LawGod,21| Eudemonists, nevertheless, differ in their opinions of precisely
406 LawGod,2 | and the morally bad? This differentiation is made by means of a special
407 LawGod,15| prevent that emptiness and diffuseness in the soul which are so
408 LawGod,27| According to the clear, precise directions of the Holy Scripture, our
409 LawGod,4 | the sense that he or she directs its course toward virtue.
410 LawGod,20| with these profaned and dirtied lips we accept the holiest
411 LawGod,6 | people, seems to be clearly disadvantageous and unprofitable. The zeal
412 LawGod,23| consoling phenomena as the disappearance of slavery, the appearance
413 LawGod,11| failure to fulfil this law are disastrous for the soul and make man
414 LawGod,11| in this learning and to discard what was useless and unnecessary.
415 LawGod,6 | If anyone wishes to be My disciple, let him deny himself and
416 LawGod,22| will know that you are my disciples if you will have love among
417 LawGod,15| Moreover, one can easily discover through personal experience
418 LawGod,9 | Conversion of Sinners~We have discussed the subjects of man's free
419 LawGod,16| end of the path of him who disdains, ignores and stubbornly
420 LawGod,23| for the family. Shame and dishonor to those mothers who shirk
421 LawGod,19| or employing deceit and dishonorableness.~This does not occur in
422 LawGod,24| condition of decline and disintegration if its family unit falls
423 LawGod,17| Orthodox Christian must be done disinterestedly or, as the Gospel says it, "
424 LawGod,17| necessary to teach him Orthodox disinterestedness in his early years. All
425 LawGod,14| beginning avoid all dissipation, disorder and inconsistency of behavior,
426 LawGod,16| which so often result from a disordered life, but most to be feared
427 LawGod,11| of taste there can be no dispute"). Finally, man's will is
428 LawGod,14| very beginning avoid all dissipation, disorder and inconsistency
429 LawGod,9 | forgotten all, and accepted the dissolute and hungry swine-herd as
430 LawGod,9 | his possessions, living dissolutely. Thus it is that the senseless
431 LawGod,9 | land, so deceiving from a distance, the senseless son squandered
432 LawGod,5 | Gospel law.~There are two distinguishable parts in Moses' law: the
433 LawGod,20| peace-making, and must be a distinguishing feature of every Christian.
434 LawGod,6 | an evil use of freedom, a distortion of it. Man does not have
435 LawGod,25| wars. See that you are not distressed: for all this must be."
436 LawGod,16| ordered Orthodox life, a disturbed and harmful relationship
437 LawGod,7 | obligations, therefore, can be divided into three groups: (1) concerning
438 LawGod,15| here that Orthodoxy never divides work into "white collar"
439 LawGod,23| other and the aberration of divorces.~Christian marriage is a
440 LawGod,17| the body prescribed by a doctor. We can see this pattern
441 LawGod,11| in Christian morality and doctrine (formerly taught in Russian
442 LawGod,24| the surrounding world and doe's not serve it in any way.
443 LawGod,19| each person who gives a donation here, knows that he is participating
444 LawGod,10| is, therefore, that only door through which one can enter
445 LawGod,4 | in the air, but will fall downward.~We already know that our
446 LawGod,22| a special feeling which draws one near to God Who is Love
447 LawGod,25| otherwise, however. Only some dreamers far removed from reality
448 LawGod,18| point where it fades and dries up.~Christian justice: This
449 LawGod,15| habit (for example, to cease drinking, smoking, swearing, etc.)...
450 LawGod,17| in the use of alcoholic drinks. Of course, one would show
451 LawGod,2 | burn their hands and not drop the incense; but even had
452 LawGod,2 | incense; but even had they dropped it, who would charge that
453 LawGod,2 | would jerk their hands back, dropping the incense into the fire.
454 LawGod,9 | pleasures, which cannot drown the torment of hunger from
455 LawGod,17| dangerous is drunkenness and drug addiction. This sin is very
456 LawGod,18| by this. In comparison to dryly loyal people, it is easy
457 LawGod,20| will not be given their "due," others will be placed
458 LawGod,18| we have talked about the duties of a Christian in relation
459 LawGod,17| s sake." As we mentioned earlier, according to Divine truth,
460 LawGod,13| possible, from the very earliest years.~Alas, all too often
461 LawGod,15| enjoyable only when they are earned by previous work. In order
462 LawGod,13| words, "I await (expect and earnestly long for) the resurrection
463 LawGod,20| your lips" - whoever has ears to listen, hear this!~In
464 LawGod,3 | stage of sin that it is easiest of all to remove it. If
465 LawGod,12| reach a turbulent, fiery ecstasy or a quiet, calm, profound
466 LawGod,20| aroused when, at the First Ecumenical Council he struck the blasphemous
467 LawGod,21| when one is wavering on the edge of temptation.~Thus, Orthodox
468 LawGod,16| or at least to other more edifying subjects. If one allows
469 LawGod,1 | outstanding church-school educator, has enhanced the value
470 LawGod,23| for a Christian: teachers, educators, etc; and especially, the
471 LawGod,3 | capability of our will to effect our intentions. Man proves
472 | eg
473 LawGod,25| in the press or in civil elections, etc. In this, one must
474 LawGod,12| our sense of beauty by the elegance of its form, but must see
475 LawGod,26| excludes even that most elementary justice which is recognized
476 LawGod,12| valuable. True beauty always elevates, ennobles, enlightens man'
477 LawGod,23| perhaps the transforming and elevating influence of Christianity
478 LawGod,21| that here again we have the elevation of that same coarse egoism
479 LawGod,16| depart from all that can elicit these bad thoughts. Our
480 LawGod,3 | sound loudly and clearly, eliciting a revulsion to the sin.
481 LawGod,22| self-less Christian love. It embraces everyone, not just friends,
482 LawGod,26| This form of communism emerged in history as a sworn and
483 LawGod,24| unbeliever... "~Once more we emphasize that such love and care
484 LawGod,18| volition of the neighbor, emphasizing his full trust and respect
485 LawGod,19| by constantly begging or employing deceit and dishonorableness.~
486 LawGod,25| of the Persian invasion, Empress Zoe recalled Tornikian to
487 LawGod,23| feeling of love, but through enamorousness, a feeling which is not
488 LawGod,23| the content of such an enamoured state is, alas, in essence
489 LawGod,19| command concerning mercy encompasses the entirety of man's life,
490 LawGod,11| rich system of learning, encompassing and explaining to man the
491 LawGod,19| lightly this sin which is now encountered everywhere. It is considered
492 LawGod,21| situation where all people are endeavoring to obtain only that which
493 LawGod,13| Christianity are gathered, ends with the words, "I await (
494 LawGod,4 | the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault and violent
495 LawGod,17| vivacity and sufficient energy without it, and to "warm
496 LawGod,1 | church-school educator, has enhanced the value of this text by
497 LawGod,12| behold and understand, to enjoy and be enthralled by any
498 LawGod,15| amusement are pleasant and enjoyable only when they are earned
499 LawGod,8 | obtain only pleasure and enjoyment in the earthly life, are
500 LawGod,22| children, "Our heart is enlarged for you ... there is room
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