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501 LawGod,12| execution, does not purify and enlighten man's soul but rather debases
502 LawGod,25| about war, St. Cyril the Enlightener of the Slavs said, "We meekly
503 LawGod,23| institutions of charity and enlightenment, and much else, are undoubtedly
504 LawGod,12| always elevates, ennobles, enlightens man's soul and sets before
505 LawGod,21| utilitarianism appears in a more ennobled and lofty form. It nevertheless
506 LawGod,12| beauty always elevates, ennobles, enlightens man's soul and
507 LawGod,3 | in which sin completely enslaves one to itself, is the passion
508 LawGod,23| falsehood. From this, there ensues the disenchantment of spouses
509 LawGod,9 | it not so that a sinner, entangled finally in the nets of sin,
510 LawGod,19| woven by the devil, which entangles and darkens the good relationship
511 LawGod,16| Contrived music, dances and entertainments so blind contemporary paganized "
512 LawGod,12| understand, to enjoy and be enthralled by any beauty, by all things
513 LawGod,21| eudemonists, pointing out that enthusiasm for sensual satisfactions
514 LawGod,3 | ignore us, acting through the enticements of the world and the flesh,
515 LawGod,3 | cast into the sea."~The enticers are also external goods,
516 LawGod,19| concerning mercy encompasses the entirety of man's life, and many
517 LawGod,3 | of this directly when he entreats us to pray for a brother
518 LawGod,16| mankind. It is difficult to enumerate the terrible consequences
519 LawGod,19| your neighbors?" Christ enumerates six particular forms of
520 LawGod,23| instruction" (Col. 3:21; Eph.6:4). To demand of children
521 LawGod,21| utilitarianism.~For eudemonism (epicurianism), the basis of morality
522 LawGod,23| and in many places in his epistles, he taught to submit to
523 LawGod,2 | responsibility for them. In the first epoch of persecution against Christianity,
524 LawGod,24| and if You will not, then erase me also from Your book of
525 LawGod,9 | of the conversion of an erring sinner to the path of righteousness.~
526 LawGod,11| centuries speaks against this erroneous view. It is sufficient just
527 LawGod,11| that even now many scholars erroneously assume that science contradicts
528 LawGod,3 | error, thus, man constantly errs - in science, in philosophy
529 LawGod,3 | freedom while struggling to escape its net appears to be slavery.~
530 LawGod,9 | Overlooking what is truly essential, they live in remoteness
531 LawGod,14| extremely difficult and essentially impossible. Are they to
532 LawGod,5 | they did restrain it and establish firm and strict limits upon
533 LawGod,24| the native land, its good estate and safety.~One can, in
534 LawGod,21| Insolvent Ethical Systems~All the qualities
535 LawGod,2 | strict and incorruptible, evaluating all one's actions and experiences.
536 LawGod,18| error comes forth with the Evangelical words, "I repent" and promises
537 LawGod,18| that, in such sorrowful events as arguments and misunderstandings,
538 | ever
539 LawGod,20| evil with evil, then he has evidently become a prisoner of this
540 LawGod,3 | is under the power of the Evil-One" and friendship with which,
541 LawGod,20| away everything now; rage, evilness, evil-speaking, the obscenity
542 LawGod,17| literally that "the root of all evils is the love of money." The
543 LawGod,22| merciful, does not envy or exalt itself, is not proud nor
544 LawGod,20| of our Savior.~Still more exalted is the virtue of peace-making.
545 LawGod,22| He calls love the most excellent path (at the end of Chapter
546 LawGod,3 | be sinners. So, without exception, all people are sinners,
547 LawGod,26| Soviet communism goes to such excesses that it excludes even that
548 LawGod,26| In practice, communism exchanged the word "brother" for the
549 LawGod,26| to such excesses that it excludes even that most elementary
550 LawGod,12| though it be of perfect execution, does not purify and enlighten
551 LawGod,26| before been experienced: executions and murders, exiles and
552 LawGod,20| demands great spiritual exertion, patience and preparedness
553 LawGod,26| and communism do not yet exhaust even the very essence of
554 LawGod,19| course, Christian help is not exhausted by deeds of physical help.
555 LawGod,18| our neighbor, we must also exhibit trust in him. This is especially
556 LawGod,26| examples of which have always existed in the Orthodox Church.~
557 LawGod,26| this Christian communism exists in the form of Koenobitic
558 LawGod,24| person matures, his horizons expand and every human being becomes
559 LawGod,13| with the words, "I await (expect and earnestly long for)
560 LawGod,20| chastity which the Lord expects of us and has commended
561 LawGod,25| Nevertheless, if God deems it expedient to use both our hands and
562 LawGod,25| of will. When our Savior explained the deep meaning of this
563 LawGod,11| learning, encompassing and explaining to man the whole world,
564 LawGod,10| Righteous St John Cassian, whose explanation is called synergism (cooperating).
565 LawGod,25| its life by, for example, expressing himself in the press or
566 LawGod,8 | very sins and in those very expressions in which he "humbly" judges
567 LawGod,5 | Testament law looked at the exterior actions of man, while the
568 LawGod,20| often happens when one is faced with the truth and it strikes
569 LawGod,10| divine Grace in them, which facilitates his salvation. Without this
570 LawGod,18| reaches a point where it fades and dries up.~Christian
571 LawGod,22| Endures all things. Love never fails."~Truly, never. Nothing
572 LawGod,11| indifference, coldness and failure to fulfil this law are disastrous
573 LawGod,20| various times - speaking falsely, argumentativeness, abusive
574 LawGod,18| one who is still weak and faltering. Of course, it sometimes
575 LawGod,13| good Orthodox Christian families, life is arranged in such
576 LawGod,26| fact, it is a religion - a fanatical, dark and intolerant religion.
577 LawGod,21| brother? Their lot will be the fate of the rich man in the parable
578 LawGod,19| the question, terrible and fateful for egoists and self-lovers: "
579 LawGod,13| with the assurance of His Fatherly love and help. A man who
580 LawGod,11| But pure science is not at fault in this and Christianity
581 LawGod,18| to others, covering the faults of their neighbors, with
582 LawGod,19| headedness - has become the favorite attribute of almost all
583 LawGod,16| disordered life, but most to be feared is the final judgment of
584 LawGod,20| forgetting about those fearsome words: "You will be judged
585 LawGod,20| must be a distinguishing feature of every Christian. It is
586 LawGod,19| help: "I was hungry and you fed Me; I was thirsty and you
587 LawGod,20| If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he thirsts, give
588 LawGod,10| Pelagius, however, Augustine fell into the opposite extreme.
589 LawGod,24| stubbornly than did his fellow countrymen. They hated Paul
590 LawGod,24| began to pray even more fervently and finally exclaimed, "
591 LawGod,3 | of this is undoubtedly a fetid source of sin and seduction.~
592 LawGod,19| of charity, there are far fewer of those vital bonds of
593 LawGod,23| devotion, all-embracing fidelity and mutual respect. Thus
594 LawGod,12| lovingly regarded lilies of the field, birds, fig trees and grape
595 LawGod,3 | by Christ against those fierce temptations to which God'
596 LawGod,12| either reach a turbulent, fiery ecstasy or a quiet, calm,
597 LawGod,12| lilies of the field, birds, fig trees and grape vines. Even
598 LawGod,6 | submission, but a freely given filial obedience of love. The Lord
599 LawGod,9 | languishes? He tries to fill his spiritual emptiness
600 LawGod,3 | possesses him entirely and fills his soul.~The lowest stage
601 LawGod,16| most to be feared is the final judgment of Him, Who commanded
602 LawGod,19| the Lord likened them to finely finished coffins which are
603 LawGod,17| says, "Give the demon a finger and it will take the whole
604 LawGod,2 | innate to mankind, that is, fixed in the very nature of man,
605 LawGod,2 | held their hands over the flame burning on their altar.
606 LawGod,25| command the armies. Tornikian flatly refused on the grounds that
607 LawGod,19| add false "compliments," flattery, praise, etc.). People forget
608 LawGod,6 | desires. But, in reality, it flies only because someone threw
609 LawGod,20| pure prayer to God will flow through these very same
610 LawGod,3 | sinned - just as poison water flows from a poisoned spring.
611 LawGod,24| compassionate relationships. With foam at the mouth they cry about
612 LawGod,10| only have to "sit with arms folded" and await God's mercy?
613 LawGod,23| than in an adult. This is followed by a situation which is
614 LawGod,17| Holy Mysteries. Then he follows the treatment of the body
615 LawGod,17| should be guarded. It is foolish to assume that a Christian
616 LawGod,6 | persecutors, they seemed to be fools consciously destroying themselves.
617 LawGod,3 | which descended from its forbears who had sinned - just as
618 LawGod,20| anger. The Lord did not forbid it as a sin except for anger "
619 LawGod,2 | etc). or those who are forced against their will to commit
620 LawGod,22| reign "unto ages of ages, forever." And thus, the same Apostle
621 LawGod,1 | Foreword~For many years now, during
622 LawGod,3 | so rules a person that it forges his will in chains. Here,
623 LawGod,9 | to love Him, and finally forgets about His law. Is this not
624 LawGod,24| and finally exclaimed, "Forgive them their sin, and if You
625 LawGod,20| us to be peace loving and forgiving of all offenses. Again we
626 LawGod,9 | had already forgiven and forgotten all, and accepted the dissolute
627 | former
628 | formerly
629 LawGod,14| man's character is still forming. It is not in vain that
630 LawGod,23| concepts and views were formulated on the Christian type. The
631 LawGod,16| youth.~We are speaking of fornication, of corruption and sexual
632 LawGod,8 | they consider themselves fortunate, and others consider them
633 LawGod,25| given, the Israelite people fought on command from God, and
634 LawGod,4 | a good, Christian-valued foundation. This work on oneself, this
635 LawGod,19| Examples of the second are founding charitable societies, societies
636 LawGod,8 | thirsty desires to drink.~The fourth precept, which is bound
637 LawGod,26| with incorruptibility and fragrance, the rotting corpse of the
638 LawGod,8 | not a profound, constant frame of mind and experience of
639 LawGod,14| place himself in definite frame-works, having created definite
640 LawGod,24| be locked up within the framework of the national state. Christian
641 LawGod,6 | freedom is his complete free-will, authority to act upon his
642 LawGod,18| that he has promised, often freeing other people from difficulties
643 LawGod,3 | with a sin when, through frequent repetition, it becomes a
644 LawGod,16| brought with the fragrant freshness, strength of untouched power
645 LawGod,24| Christian manner - to be friendly, of good will, to have a
646 LawGod,22| embraces everyone, not just friends, but also enemies. In the
647 LawGod,3 | power of the Evil-One" and friendship with which, according to
648 LawGod,21| morality. They seem to be frightened by the height of love willed
649 LawGod,15| personal experience what a fulfilling satisfaction is felt by
650 LawGod,22| this Christian love? In its fully developed state, it is the
651 LawGod,17| acquiring," to seeking gain and aiming for it.~In order
652 LawGod,17| for neighbors who makes gains. The one who serves others
653 LawGod,24| from the Epistle to the Galatians): "So, as we have opportunity,
654 LawGod,4 | words to the Apostles in the Garden of Gethsemane, "Keep vigil
655 LawGod,23| the fifth commandment of Gas law, about honoring the
656 LawGod,15| learn to concentrate, to gather himself together. One must
657 LawGod,2 | influence from preceding generations, most of all on the basis
658 LawGod,19| of sincere compassion and gentle words from, for example,
659 LawGod,25| Mountain.~Prince Tornikian of Georgia, an eminent commander of
660 LawGod,4 | Apostles in the Garden of Gethsemane, "Keep vigil and pray lest
661 LawGod,9 | impure). He would have been glad to eat swine's food, but
662 LawGod,17| carnal sin which, at first glance, does not seem as ruinous
663 LawGod,26| other - ignorant darkness, gloom and emptiness, without joy,
664 LawGod,8 | teachings of our Holy and God-bearing Fathers - the athletes and
665 LawGod,16| Christian, however, who is God-loving and strict with himself
666 LawGod,8 | will inevitably fall into God-opposing pride, and will fall away
667 LawGod,5 | an external guide, for a God-revealed law. Such a law was given
668 LawGod,9 | first, betrayal of God, going away from Him to a "distant
669 LawGod,5 | nation. The second aspect is gone into the past for Christians,
670 LawGod,3 | enticers are also external goods, riches, comforts, immoral
671 LawGod,3 | seemingly minor sin such as gossiping, love of attire, empty diversions,
672 LawGod,26| protection of the communist government. The ruling class has no
673 LawGod,3 | nothing will help him except Grace-filled Church prayers and other
674 LawGod,9 | sinner accepts the saving, Graceful appeal (or rejects it and
675 LawGod,15| the parable, the man began grandly to build a tower, but could
676 LawGod,24| be non-Christian. No, God grant them well-being and every
677 LawGod,12| field, birds, fig trees and grape vines. Even in the Old Testament
678 LawGod,22| the personal "I," our self gratification which we receive from this
679 LawGod,22| of a most strong inner gravitation of one person to another.
680 LawGod,6 | the action and power of gravity.~We will return to this
681 LawGod,27| This is the first and greatest commandment."~To this commandment
682 LawGod,25| of course, sin and sin greatly while participating in war.
683 LawGod,13| who have grown up under greenhouse conditions, separated from
684 LawGod,11| and Christianity always greets and blesses serious worldly
685 LawGod,11| Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John
686 LawGod,13| shall there be anguish nor grief nor pain anymore..." "And
687 LawGod,24| his people; he sees them, grieves over them, struggles with
688 LawGod,18| ascetics of Christianity, while grieving so about their own sins,
689 LawGod,25| Tornikian flatly refused on the grounds that he was a monk. But
690 LawGod,26| remaining state and social groupings of citizens are "thrown
691 LawGod,13| results. Children who have grown up under greenhouse conditions,
692 LawGod,9 | which his deathless spirit grows weak.~The unfortunate-one
693 LawGod,17| gift from God and should be guarded. It is foolish to assume
694 LawGod,9 | is annoyed by the careful guardianship of his father. The son senselessly
695 LawGod,19| not be home" to avoid a guest or caller; to claim to be
696 LawGod,1 | book for the benefit and guidance of our youth.~The Law of
697 LawGod,2 | and Who, through this law, guides all of his life and activities.~
698 LawGod,7 | perfect; but I strive for, if haply I might apprehend, that
699 LawGod,21| must seek in order to be happy. Some of them (if not the
700 LawGod,24| book of life." And the Lord harkened to Moses. Is this not the
701 LawGod,16| perceives their sin and harmfulness. Various types of obscene
702 LawGod,19| a person with the aim of harming him. This type of falsehood
703 LawGod,12| this: beauty is the full harmony between the content and
704 LawGod,7 | understanding of life - he only harms himself, his deathless "
705 LawGod,26| imprisonment in unbelievably harsh conditions. This is what
706 | hast
707 LawGod,19| souls, they were malicious haters of truth and good. For this
708 | hath
709 LawGod,8 | pride will rear up on its haunches from the reproaches and
710 LawGod,23| common, cordial life. The head of the family is the husband.
711 LawGod,19| child of falsehood and empty headedness - has become the favorite
712 LawGod,17| the Gospel, where before healing a person from his physical
713 LawGod,9 | live." The prodigal son heard the call of God's Grace
714 LawGod,11| His Apostle says, "Not the hearers of the law, but the fulfillers
715 LawGod,2 | of the soul this person hears the voice of conscience, "
716 LawGod,19| compassion cover a person's heaviest sins.~Of course, Christian
717 LawGod,26| the Soviet Union know the heaviness and intensity of the oppression
718 LawGod,3 | from sinning. One will be helped by the clear voice of conscience
719 LawGod,15| deficient in any way - not helpful to others, lazy, having
720 LawGod,23| by their own love, often helping them even when they have
721 LawGod,24| children together, as a hen gathers her brood under
722 LawGod,20| he struck the blasphemous heretic Arius on the cheek. This
723 LawGod,3 | inclination towards sin, a heritage from the sin of our progenitors
724 | herself
725 LawGod,11| three great teachers and hierarchs, Saints Basil the Great,
726 LawGod,24| Depart from Me, do not hinder Me, that My justice be kindled
727 LawGod,24| great Apostle Paul. No one hindered his work of preaching more
728 LawGod,27| that great love for God hinders one's love for neighbors.
729 LawGod,10| The teacher Augustine [of Hippo] stepped forth against this
730 LawGod,23| over to be cared for by hired persons, forgetting that
731 LawGod,16| hearts, or else a higher and holier path, a path of virginity,
732 LawGod,20| dirtied lips we accept the holiest of all holy things - the
733 LawGod,17| death, but even await it hopefully. Apostle Paul, for example,
734 LawGod,13| alone.~A situation can seem hopeless only to an unbeliever. A
735 LawGod,13| will never feel himself hopelessly alone.~A situation can seem
736 LawGod,24| As a person matures, his horizons expand and every human being
737 LawGod,3 | refused and hated it? This horrible condition is similar to
738 LawGod,16| young, developing soul of humanity.~Blessed is the one who
739 LawGod,3 | disappears and the man is humbled (compare Apostle Peter before
740 LawGod,8 | sometimes will thank you for the humbling instruction. If he does
741 LawGod,16| Various types of obscene humor are now quite acceptable
742 LawGod,9 | finally in the nets of sin, hungers spiritually, suffers and
743 LawGod,23| crying, "Mama" when it is hurt. There is a great task before
744 LawGod,23| the Church, and he says, "Husbands, love your wives as Christ
745 LawGod,22| appropriately called "the hymn of Christian love." Here,
746 LawGod,18| the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite, first remove the beam from
747 LawGod,19| He usually called them hypocrites, by this indicating that
748 LawGod,23| of both body and soul, a hypocritical desire not to be, but to
749 LawGod,12| of church singing and in iconography. It is notable that beauty
750 LawGod,26| communal property is a bright, idealistically elevated type of Christian
751 LawGod,3 | some temptation becomes identified in a person's conscience -
752 LawGod,19| compassion, and mercy, He identifies Himself with every unfortunate
753 LawGod,2 | brought sacrifice to the idols?~That the moral law must
754 LawGod,3 | since it can be committed in ignorance or temporary blindness.
755 LawGod,26| over evil. With the other - ignorant darkness, gloom and emptiness,
756 LawGod,3 | Nevertheless, Satan does not ignore us, acting through the enticements
757 LawGod,16| path of him who disdains, ignores and stubbornly violates
758 LawGod,3 | passes over first into an ill-defined striving and then into a
759 LawGod,20| faith are planting envy and ill-will in the masses, in place
760 LawGod,24| his eyes to the sins and ills of his people; he sees them,
761 LawGod,20| this repulsive swearing and imagine that fragrant words of pure
762 LawGod,10| of God's Grace has such immense significance in the matter
763 LawGod,7 | strives toward God and the immortal, blessed, eternal life.~
764 LawGod,21| turns one's thoughts to the immortality of the soul and to one's
765 LawGod,17| consciously (without mental impairment) take their own lives. Suicide
766 LawGod,23| relationships of people. No impartial person would doubt or contradict
767 LawGod,10| ruin - and God does not impede his freedom, although He
768 LawGod,8 | only sorrow over their own imperfection and unworthiness, but mourn
769 LawGod,14| individual it is of primary importance, for inner self-discipline
770 LawGod,15| Apostle Paul spoke of his impotence to struggle with sin and
771 LawGod,3 | s conscience - a sinful impression, an unclean thought or some
772 LawGod,11| responds to the effects and impressions from the external world
773 LawGod,26| and murders, exiles and imprisonment in unbelievably harsh conditions.
774 LawGod,2 | actions. Only then can moral imputation be applied to these actions,
775 LawGod,2 | these actions, and then they impute to the person either guilt,
776 LawGod,22| down from heaven, was made Incarnate, suffered and died so that
777 LawGod,23| into the attachment only incidentally, and never has such a significance
778 LawGod,24| thus not vital. Such errors include all the tenets of cosmopolitanism
779 LawGod,20| good will. And our Savior included envy in the category of
780 LawGod,13| about which we have spoken, including the highest of them - mercy
781 LawGod,17| with Christ, because it is incomparably better" (than remaining
782 LawGod,14| dissipation, disorder and inconsistency of behavior, otherwise,
783 LawGod,5 | regard the Old Testament law incorrectly. some see no good in it,
784 LawGod,26| Christ's faith blossom with incorruptibility and fragrance, the rotting
785 LawGod,2 | as a judge - strict and incorruptible, evaluating all one's actions
786 LawGod,15| sharply rebuked those who act indecently and are superstitious, and
787 LawGod,3 | sins, as the Scriptural indictment says, "There is no one who
788 LawGod,11| and His holy will and law, indifference, coldness and failure to
789 LawGod,2 | the very nature of man, is indisputable. This is clearly seen from
790 LawGod,16| of Christian marriage, an indissoluble union of two hearts, or
791 LawGod,12| the aesthetic feeling is indissolubley tied with the idea of the
792 LawGod,23| situation which is simply inescapable for the child. It is even
793 LawGod,6 | an absurd but completely inevitable deduction from determinism.
794 LawGod,7 | Christian who, through his inexperience, thought that he could attain
795 LawGod,13| everywhere and always sees the infinite vault of heaven above him
796 LawGod,3 | the saints. We, sick and infirm, are specially defended
797 LawGod,6 | commanded them and which influenced them from without. This
798 LawGod,24| success.~The most important information which we find on patriotism
799 LawGod,12| one degree or another is inherent in every person, but is
800 LawGod,3 | upon the inclination to sin inherited from our ancestors, each
801 LawGod,23| There is an even greater injustice: for a child, the father
802 LawGod,16| after this sin, like an inseparable shadow. We will not speak
803 LawGod,15| far lower than the most insignificant of his subordinates who
804 LawGod,19| obtain that mortal deceit and insincerity, which now so often destroys
805 LawGod,7 | spiritual life. In the present instance, this can be said in other
806 LawGod,15| must also remember those instances when a person feels his
807 LawGod,16| against such thoughts the instant they appear. By effort of
808 LawGod,2 | innate - a sort of moral instinct - but not so with revealed
809 LawGod,15| build a church or public institution, to adopt an orphan, to
810 LawGod,23| appearance of a whole series of institutions of charity and enlightenment,
811 LawGod,3 | blasphemy and their example is instructive and urgent for all those
812 LawGod,23| yourselves (to your spiritual instructors,) for they watch over your
813 LawGod,4 | oneself, struggling with his insufficiencies and vices, developing in
814 LawGod,20| what sordidness, what an insult to the purity and chastity
815 LawGod,20| of personal offenses and insults, as the Savior commanded
816 LawGod,16| sexual need acts with such insurmountable strength that man is powerless
817 LawGod,9 | life of many contemporary intellectuals? Overlooking what is truly
818 LawGod,3 | of us. He struggles most intensely and with the most malice
819 LawGod,26| Union know the heaviness and intensity of the oppression which
820 LawGod,21| fulfillment of his evil intent. Thus, the principle of
821 LawGod,3 | of our will to effect our intentions. Man proves to be without
822 LawGod,26| elevated type of Christian inter-relationship, examples of which have
823 LawGod,14| in the first place, is interested primarily in questions of
824 LawGod,1 | a church-school text for intermediate students, but its value
825 LawGod,3 | its danger and, in lucid intervals, perhaps even hates it with
826 LawGod,26| a fanatical, dark and intolerant religion. Christianity is
827 LawGod,26| freedom to assemble, nor the inviolability of the home. Only those
828 LawGod,3 | and moods, as did Judas Iscariot. At this stage, one literally
829 LawGod,24| sake of my brethren ... the Israelites." From these words, we see
830 LawGod,2 | supposed that the martyrs would jerk their hands back, dropping
831 LawGod,24| upon the robbed and wounded Jew - a man from a nation inimical
832 LawGod,24| with testimony of how the Jews loved their Zion, their
833 LawGod,9 | so hungry that he took a job as a swine-herd (a keeper
834 LawGod,18| Christian, on the contrary, joyfully receives the good volition
835 LawGod,25| Words cannot express how joyous it would be if people ceased
836 LawGod,24| not want to know of the joys and sorrows of the surrounding
837 LawGod,19| cover a multitude of sins" (Js. 5:20).~In concluding these
838 LawGod,2 | in him first of all as a judge - strict and incorruptible,
839 LawGod,2 | bond with this action of judging, the conscience also acts
840 LawGod,6 | keep His ordinance, and His judgments; then ye shall live, and ...
841 LawGod,24| inclined to elevate and justify everything native (even
842 LawGod,9 | a job as a swine-herd (a keeper of animals which, according
843 LawGod,8 | sufferings. It is also in keeping with the spirit of the Gospel
844 LawGod,7 | the main thought and the key to the correct understanding
845 LawGod,24| Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets and stones
846 LawGod,13| that they become better, kinder, more pious and more sympathetic.~
847 LawGod,20| a blaze a tiny spark can kindle. And the tongue is a fire,
848 LawGod,24| hinder Me, that My justice be kindled on them and destroy them."~
849 LawGod,18| of their neighbors, with kindness and love. In general, the
850 LawGod,3 | sinful suggestions of all kinds. it is because of this,
851 LawGod,22| Heavenly love. The Heavenly King leads the sinner - the one
852 LawGod,9 | around his shoulders and kissed him. The son was about to
853 LawGod,21| weapons - a revolver or a knife - are beneficial to a thief
854 LawGod,26| communism exists in the form of Koenobitic monasticism. Both the concept
855 LawGod,1 | exceeds that. Popadija Anna Krosnjar, a dedicated and outstanding
856 LawGod,6 | concerning such "freedom" - l Pt. 2:15-16; 2 Pt. 2:19).
857 LawGod,15| tended to regard physical labor disdainfully. Orthodoxy
858 LawGod,20| preparedness to meet cold lack of understanding, derision,
859 LawGod,5 | says, "If one who lights a lamp before himself in broad
860 LawGod,8 | Fathers - the athletes and lamps of Christian piety - the
861 LawGod,9 | spiritually, suffers and languishes? He tries to fill his spiritual
862 LawGod,14| too: man's habits have a large significance in the matter
863 LawGod,17| become, through repetition, a lasting habit. It is better not
864 | later
865 LawGod,8 | hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! For you shall mourn
866 LawGod,15| complete it and his neighbors, laughed at him, saying, "This man
867 LawGod,20| of the multiplication of lawlessness, love will grow cold in
868 LawGod,25| society, we defend each other, laying down our lives for our neighbors..."~
869 LawGod,21| parable of the rich man and Lazarus. It cannot be otherwise
870 LawGod,15| not helpful to others, lazy, having little concern for
871 LawGod,19| with which these so called leaders of the people were filled.
872 LawGod,12| renounced the world. The leading monasteries of Russia were
873 LawGod,15| Orthodox Christian must learn to concentrate, to gather
874 | least
875 LawGod,16| warns us of the impure, lecherous gaze - and the gaze Christ
876 LawGod,16| need" but of depravity and lechery and results from a person'
877 LawGod,20| your right check, turn your left one to him also." In other
878 LawGod,18| course, in our time such legally just persons are comparatively
879 LawGod,2 | acts in one's soul as a legislator. All those moral demands
880 LawGod,26| corpse of the often-embalmed Lenin is the best symbol of communism.~
881 LawGod,3 | sin.~Sin is a spiritual leprosy, an illness and an ulcer
882 LawGod,1 | providing church-school lessons at the end of each chapter.
883 LawGod,4 | Gethsemane, "Keep vigil and pray lest you fall into temptation."
884 LawGod,3 | one literally and directly lets Satan into his heart (as
885 LawGod,5 | into consideration the low level of spiritual development
886 LawGod,16| dangerous and harmful is licentiousness - the loss of chastity and
887 LawGod,18| not bring any falsehood or lie or offense or evil into
888 LawGod,10| are overcome by means of life-long moral struggle (man's efforts
889 LawGod,4 | are worked out in such a life-struggle. A Christian must, of course,
890 LawGod,19| extremely dangerous to view lightly this sin which is now encountered
891 LawGod,11| person likes is not always liked by another and vice versa (
892 LawGod,19| For this reason, the Lord likened them to finely finished
893 LawGod,3 | man in His own image and likeness. Therefore, in the creation
894 LawGod,12| tenderly and lovingly regarded lilies of the field, birds, fig
895 LawGod,12| Orthodox Christianity cannot limit its concept of the truly
896 LawGod,5 | establish firm and strict limits upon it. Moreover, it must
897 LawGod,20| according to the Gospel, this line of meek behavior is the
898 LawGod,3 | compares Satan with a "raging lion which stalks about seeking
899 LawGod,5 | commandments, not externally - literalistically, in the manner of blind,
900 LawGod,12| picture, composition or literary work. He can himself understand
901 LawGod,7 | Christian is in a constant, lively intercourse with God and
902 LawGod,1 | great assistance not only to local church-school teachers,
903 LawGod,12| of Russia were founded in localities distinguished by their beauty.~
904 LawGod,24| Christian family must not lock itself up within itself
905 LawGod,24| the Christian must not be locked up within the framework
906 LawGod,21| appears in a more ennobled and lofty form. It nevertheless retains
907 LawGod,18| or, loyal justice (from loi-law): This is the lowest form
908 LawGod,20| counteraction.~The Gospel virtue of long-suffering is organically bound with
909 LawGod,17| only temporary exiles.~That longed for "Christian end of our
910 LawGod,15| account of one's moods and longings. One must also consider
911 LawGod,5 | that the Old Testament law looked at the exterior actions
912 LawGod,21| suffering brother? Their lot will be the fate of the
913 LawGod,3 | of the conscience sound loudly and clearly, eliciting a
914 LawGod,12| our Savior tenderly and lovingly regarded lilies of the field,
915 LawGod,9 | one. One is, as it were, lowered and then elevated by steps.
916 LawGod,3 | acknowledge its danger and, in lucid intervals, perhaps even
917 LawGod,16| The Struggle Against Lust~Man consists of soul and
918 LawGod,18| in ourselves, in our own lusts, obduracy, self-love and
919 LawGod,12| contemplating the beauty and majesty of God's creation, exclaimed, "
920 LawGod,24| then in the event of a major external destruction of
921 LawGod,21| Some of them (if not the majority) speak almost exclusively
922 LawGod,2 | norms lower, coarser, more malformed than Orthodox Christians
923 LawGod,3 | intensely and with the most malice with the saints as we see
924 LawGod,19| hearts and souls, they were malicious haters of truth and good.
925 LawGod,26| the communists struggle so maliciously and stubbornly against our
926 LawGod,23| to its mother, crying, "Mama" when it is hurt. There
927 LawGod,18| and civil laws which are mandatory for him and for others.
928 LawGod,26| proletariat. Moreover, there is no manifestation of ordinary political freedom
929 LawGod,8 | s Providence and in the manifestations of God's justice and omnipotence.
930 LawGod,19| This image of love is manifold and this command is wide."
931 LawGod,21| ideas are often cloaked in a mantle of Christian idealism.~
932 LawGod,7 | before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high
933 LawGod,16| relationship to marriage and married life these cannot help but
934 LawGod,22| struggles of self-denial and martyrdom: without love they are nothing,
935 LawGod,20| envy and ill-will in the masses, in place of Christ's love
936 LawGod,8 | The Christian (whether materially rich or poor) must recognize
937 LawGod,7 | must use these gifts (like materials in the construction of a
938 LawGod,24| as possible. As a person matures, his horizons expand and
939 LawGod,10| do our personal efforts mean? Perhaps the entire matter
940 LawGod,1 | paused to reflect on the meaninglessness of such a statement. For,
941 | meantime
942 | meanwhile
943 LawGod,17| Orthodox person must, by all measures, draw away from sinful seductions
944 LawGod,6 | Who seeks from man not a mechanical submission, but a freely
945 LawGod,21| something absolutely good. Medicine, for example, is beneficial
946 LawGod,17| by doctors. Doctors and medicines exist by God's will. We
947 LawGod,25| Enlightener of the Slavs said, "We meekly endure personal offenses;
948 LawGod,24| each person with whom he meets in daily life. Christian
949 LawGod,1 | reverently dedicated to the memory of ~Metropolitan Philaret
950 LawGod,23| reduce Christianity to a mere narrowly-individualized
951 LawGod,17| a criminal dying in the middle of a crime, etc. At this
952 LawGod,14| place of external school or military discipline here. Man must
953 LawGod,3 | better for that man that a millstone be tied around his neck
954 LawGod,3 | mind that even a seemingly minor sin such as gossiping, love
955 LawGod,11| life of the Savior, His miracles and teaching? How, moreover,
956 LawGod,3 | heart has been bound in the mire of sin; it has lost the
957 LawGod,5 | coarseness and cruelty. This is a mistaken view. It is necessary to
958 LawGod,18| repenting person is met with mistrust and coldness, and the good
959 LawGod,18| events as arguments and misunderstandings, we must not seek to find
960 LawGod,25| experiences and interests, if we moan and sigh while our deeds
961 LawGod,24| their temple. This was a model of true patriotism, of love
962 LawGod,25| In a conversation with Mohammedans, about war, St. Cyril the
963 LawGod,10| and divine services are moments and means of the consecrating
964 LawGod,12| renounced the world. The leading monasteries of Russia were founded in
965 LawGod,25| monasticism at St Athanasios' monastery. During the time of the
966 LawGod,12| Lord ... Praise Him sun and moon, praise Him stars and lights..."~
967 LawGod,2 | however, no concept of morality-immorality, and so their behavior cannot
968 LawGod,9 | animals which, according to Mosaic law, were impure). He would
969 LawGod,23| Shame and dishonor to those mothers who shirk from the raising
970 LawGod,16| Added to this, there are motion pictures and literature
971 LawGod,18| conscience, from the heart, being motivated by the Gospel law of love,
972 LawGod,8 | the Gospel to account as mourners all those sorrowing and
973 LawGod,24| relationships. With foam at the mouth they cry about their love
974 LawGod,16| this cloud of temptations moves upon the young, developing
975 LawGod,24| people with a profound and moving love.~The feeling of patriotism,
976 LawGod,20| that, then, "because of the multiplication of lawlessness, love will
977 LawGod,9 | Apostle Paul, where sin has multiplied, an abundance of Grace appears
978 LawGod,6 | thievery, nor the murderer for murder, etc., since they did not
979 LawGod,6 | thief for thievery, nor the murderer for murder, etc., since
980 LawGod,26| experienced: executions and murders, exiles and imprisonment
981 LawGod,19| you gave Me drink; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was
982 LawGod,27| must be sacrificed in the name of love for God and neighbor.
983 LawGod,3 | the vice of alcoholism, narcotic addiction, etc.). In this
984 LawGod,21| straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leads to
985 LawGod,23| reduce Christianity to a mere narrowly-individualized sphere of religious experiences.
986 LawGod,21| useful" and "good" do not necessarily coincide. Secondly, there
987 LawGod,3 | millstone be tied around his neck and he be cast into the
988 LawGod,4 | aspects. It is especially needful at this point to recall
989 LawGod,10| in essence, he began to negate the necessity itself of
990 LawGod,6 | insolvency of determinism, which negates the freedom of the will,
991 LawGod,17| Orthodox life should not be negligent about his health. Health
992 LawGod,15| are so common now in our nervous, restless, vain times, an
993 LawGod,22| the egoism and evil which nest in man's heart. This true
994 LawGod,9 | entangled finally in the nets of sin, hungers spiritually,
995 LawGod,20| with such anger that St Nicholas the Wonderworker was aroused
996 LawGod,9 | himself after a terrible nightmare. There was a saving thought: "
997 LawGod,24| for forty days and forty nights in prayer. The Lord told
998 LawGod,10| In his conversation with Nikodemos about how one enters into
999 LawGod,9 | repentant sinner than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do
1000 LawGod,14| unprincipled man is a moral nonentity, having no moral foundations,
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