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1001 LawGod,20| think that all this is "nonsense," "of no consequence," forgetting
1002 LawGod,14| that without it, a correct, normal order and success in work
1003 LawGod,12| and in iconography. It is notable that beauty in nature was
1004 LawGod,20| nothing and do not even take notice of the constant sinning
1005 LawGod,20| relationships. This is especially noticeable now that the enemies of
1006 LawGod,15| the following: if a person notices himself deficient in any
1007 LawGod,9 | But accept me into the number of your hirelings." A firm
1008 LawGod,18| ourselves, in our own lusts, obduracy, self-love and egoism. Thus,
1009 LawGod,3 | would sin mortal sin: by an obdurate and conscious adversity
1010 LawGod,25| completely ... If you do not obey the ruler, you will have
1011 LawGod,26| tramples on all justice. The object of its work is not the common
1012 LawGod,22| cymbal" (like spiritless objects which only act on the external
1013 LawGod,5 | in the law of Moses are obligatory for Christians. Christianity
1014 LawGod,22| people not for their good or obliging disposition but for themselves;
1015 LawGod,22| verity and not falsehood and obligingness. Finally, "Love covers all
1016 LawGod,16| harmfulness. Various types of obscene humor are now quite acceptable
1017 LawGod,20| evilness, evil-speaking, the obscenity of your lips" - whoever
1018 LawGod,23| marriages, one constantly observes deceit and self-embellishing
1019 LawGod,15| swearing, etc.)... It is obvious that a person must give
1020 LawGod,23| consideration of all those who occupy similar positions for a
1021 LawGod,19| dishonorableness.~This does not occur in a social charity which
1022 LawGod,9 | away and conversion to God occurs in one. One is, as it were,
1023 LawGod,20| observe that a person who is offended by someone becomes angry
1024 LawGod,20| placed higher than others and offending them.~Together with envy,
1025 LawGod,18| any falsehood or lie or offense or evil into life. All people
1026 LawGod,21| addition to the moral system offered by Orthodox Christianity,
1027 LawGod,1 | totally fulfilled and She offers this fullness to us. We,
1028 LawGod,26| the rotting corpse of the often-embalmed Lenin is the best symbol
1029 LawGod,23| with obedience. And the older children become, the more
1030 LawGod,25| pretend that war can be omitted from real life.~It is quite
1031 LawGod,8 | manifestations of God's justice and omnipotence. But their spiritual hunger
1032 LawGod,18| useless - if partiality and one-sidedness appear in it instead of
1033 LawGod,17| is that this very wealth opens the access to all other
1034 LawGod,21| nevertheless, differ in their opinions of precisely what satisfactions
1035 LawGod,20| person and an unwavering opponent of all egoism. There is
1036 LawGod,8 | Holy Scripture says: "God opposes the proud and gives Grace
1037 LawGod,13| life, were persecuted and oppressed and banished for Christ'
1038 LawGod,26| heaviness and intensity of the oppression which reigns there. Over
1039 LawGod,23| we have seen, God's word orders parents to raise and instruct
1040 LawGod,6 | His ways, and to keep His ordinance, and His judgments; then
1041 LawGod,26| there is no manifestation of ordinary political freedom under
1042 LawGod,12| sorts - from the lowest organic sensations up to the highest
1043 LawGod,20| virtue of long-suffering is organically bound with meekness and
1044 LawGod,23| marriage two people form one organism, one common life. An Orthodox
1045 LawGod,3 | remained sinless. He lost his original purity in the first fall
1046 LawGod,4 | that our sins generally originate from three sources: from
1047 LawGod,15| institution, to adopt an orphan, to make a pilgrimage, etc.
1048 LawGod,19| a beggar, adopting poor orphans, etc. Examples of the second
1049 LawGod,21| them. They advise that one ought rather to obtain satisfactions
1050 LawGod,20| appear as hungry wolves, outbidding one another in efforts to
1051 LawGod,1 | Krosnjar, a dedicated and outstanding church-school educator,
1052 LawGod,19| filled. The Pharisees were outwardly pretended saints, but in
1053 LawGod,26| of citizens are "thrown overboard," outside the care and protection
1054 LawGod,9 | contemporary intellectuals? Overlooking what is truly essential,
1055 LawGod,16| entertainments so blind contemporary paganized "Christian" society that
1056 LawGod,24| state. Christian love is pan-human. For a Christian, each person,
1057 LawGod,17| prayer, contemplation and partaking of the Holy Mysteries.~A
1058 LawGod,18| turn out to be useless - if partiality and one-sidedness appear
1059 LawGod,23| marriage, the love of the partners has that very same selfless,
1060 LawGod,5 | are two distinguishable parts in Moses' law: the religious-moral
1061 LawGod,25| to one's own personal or party interests - then one's conscience
1062 LawGod,23| the bishops, and also the pastor who is his spiritual father
1063 LawGod,16| chastity! God blesses only two paths for man on earth: either
1064 LawGod,20| great spiritual exertion, patience and preparedness to meet
1065 LawGod,22| in conduct." It makes one patient, meek, humble and of good-will
1066 LawGod,17| doctor. We can see this pattern in the Gospel, where before
1067 LawGod,1 | Few people seem to have paused to reflect on the meaninglessness
1068 LawGod,20| earth ... Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called
1069 LawGod,21| with neighbors - meekness, peacemaking, longsuffering, etc. - clearly
1070 LawGod,7 | suddenly; virtue is not a pear - you cannot eat it at once."
1071 LawGod,9 | his father."~He went, all penetrated with repentance, burning
1072 LawGod,16| society that it no longer perceives their sin and harmfulness.
1073 LawGod,6 | thought to the moment of the performance of his wrong action, and
1074 LawGod,3 | the habitual actions are performed by the person very easily,
1075 LawGod,3 | distorted the truth. They perished in their own blasphemy and
1076 LawGod,9 | appeal (or rejects it and perishes - and alas, this happens).
1077 LawGod,16| will never allow, never permit that bad desires and thoughts
1078 LawGod,22| for those who offend and persecute you." Thus, a Christian
1079 LawGod,13| this earthly life, were persecuted and oppressed and banished
1080 LawGod,2 | them. In the first epoch of persecution against Christianity, the
1081 LawGod,6 | of this. To their pagan persecutors, they seemed to be fools
1082 LawGod,25| During the time of the Persian invasion, Empress Zoe recalled
1083 LawGod,23| the unification of loving personalities becomes so all-comprehensive
1084 LawGod,6 | repentance, an experience personally well-known to everyone.
1085 LawGod,16| spiritual rottenness and pestilence, corrupting and killing
1086 LawGod,23| Further, such consoling phenomena as the disappearance of
1087 LawGod,6 | The eminent 17th century philosopher Spinoza defends this opinion.
1088 LawGod,21| reason, some utilitarian philosophers strive to soften this ideal
1089 LawGod,16| Many ancient religions and philosophical teachings spoke of man's
1090 LawGod,13| while growing and developing physically, must also grow and develop
1091 LawGod,12| perfection and beauty in a good picture, composition or literary
1092 LawGod,16| to this, there are motion pictures and literature vying with
1093 LawGod,15| adopt an orphan, to make a pilgrimage, etc. When applied to our
1094 LawGod,18| cold, unsympathetic and pitiless. Such a person of iniquity
1095 LawGod,18| their own sins, being almost pitilessly strict and demanding of
1096 LawGod,9 | returning). He saw and took pity, and running out, threw
1097 LawGod,19| administered by chance, but is planned and organized, bringing
1098 LawGod,14| and cannot carry out his plans in life, no matter how good
1099 LawGod,20| enemies of Christ's faith are planting envy and ill-will in the
1100 LawGod,12| truly beautiful only to what pleases our sense of beauty by the
1101 LawGod,8 | contrary, seek to obtain only pleasure and enjoyment in the earthly
1102 LawGod,15| negative vows. One gives a pledge not to commit one or another
1103 LawGod,23| exceeds their strength only plunges them into despondency. There
1104 LawGod,21| for example, are music, poetry and various types of art
1105 LawGod,25| of this commandment, He pointed out that it forbids not
1106 LawGod,21| dead."~Other eudemonists, pointing out that enthusiasm for
1107 LawGod,3 | poison water flows from a poisoned spring. Acting upon the
1108 LawGod,18| equally, and is peaceful, polite and careful with all. He
1109 LawGod,1 | value far exceeds that. Popadija Anna Krosnjar, a dedicated
1110 LawGod,1 | youth cult," it has been popular to use the expression, "
1111 LawGod,23| those who occupy similar positions for a Christian: teachers,
1112 LawGod,21| even more insolvent and positively absurd. Orthodoxy constantly
1113 LawGod,15| in a high and responsible post, is far lower than the most
1114 LawGod,15| example, to help a person in poverty, to build a church or public
1115 LawGod,22| it is the most elevated, powerful and radiant of all human
1116 LawGod,15| almighty strength to help our powerlessness.~In addition to prayers,
1117 LawGod,26| religion of dry, rational pragmatism, pursuing the goal of creating
1118 LawGod,16| vying with each other in praising sin and describing it in
1119 LawGod,4 | who is vigilant and who prays, standing on guard for his
1120 LawGod,23| Together with this, in the pre-wedding time of such marriages,
1121 LawGod,24| the lives of the verbose preachers of cosmopolitanism are dry
1122 LawGod,24| one hindered his work of preaching more wrathfully and stubbornly
1123 LawGod,8 | begins His New Testament precepts of blessedness with the
1124 LawGod,19| James wrote concerning such precious spiritual help, "He who
1125 LawGod,23| our own days to see the precipitous, thoughtlessly careless
1126 LawGod,27| According to the clear, precise directions of the Holy Scripture,
1127 LawGod,3 | and source of anti-moral predisposition's, strivings and inclinations.
1128 LawGod,6 | Moreover, man can even prefer a motive which, to other
1129 LawGod,2 | firm in spirit that they preferred to burn their hands and
1130 LawGod,24| that, like Moses, he was prepared to sacrifice even his personal,
1131 LawGod,20| spiritual exertion, patience and preparedness to meet cold lack of understanding,
1132 LawGod,17| blameless and peaceful." One prepares for such an end by prayer,
1133 LawGod,17| the treatment of the body prescribed by a doctor. We can see
1134 LawGod,2 | etc), are norms, demands, prescriptions of this very conscience.
1135 LawGod,14| characterless person, not presenting himself as anything definite.
1136 LawGod,16| through the Church, or who preserves all this to the grave in
1137 LawGod,6 | freedom of the will which is presupposed here? Recently, a teaching
1138 LawGod,25| one-sided sectarians can pretend that war can be omitted
1139 LawGod,19| even now in the form of pretending and desiring to seem to
1140 LawGod,10| away the guilt of all sins previously committed by the one being
1141 LawGod,20| efforts to seize upon the prey, snatching it away from
1142 LawGod,25| Athanasios of the Holy Mountain.~Prince Tornikian of Georgia, an
1143 LawGod,19| you comforted Me; I was in prison and you visited Me." And
1144 LawGod,20| he has evidently become a prisoner of this evil and is defeated
1145 LawGod,7 | toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God
1146 LawGod,14| first half of this life.~Probably no one would argue against
1147 LawGod,17| Other Carnal Problems; Christian Death~Of the
1148 LawGod,20| But we, nevertheless, profane our lips with this repulsive
1149 LawGod,20| same lips; and with these profaned and dirtied lips we accept
1150 LawGod,3 | heritage from the sin of our progenitors and our own personal sinful
1151 LawGod,21| which are more stable and prolonged, and also more spiritualized.
1152 LawGod,15| sin. A vow is a personal promise to do any good, beneficial
1153 LawGod,3 | age or in the future. He pronounced these terrible words against
1154 LawGod,6 | from determinism. Secondly, proof of the freedom of the will
1155 LawGod,26| freedom.~In its political propaganda, communism claims that it
1156 LawGod,24| but soberly looks at its properties and characteristics. He
1157 LawGod,24| Jerusalem, which kills the prophets and stones them that are
1158 LawGod,27| love for neighbors. The proponents of this theory claim that
1159 LawGod,17| wherein a person wants to "prove" his strength and steadiness
1160 LawGod,17| vodka" is so unnecessary. A proverb says, "Give the demon a
1161 LawGod,3 | effect our intentions. Man proves to be without strength of
1162 LawGod,8 | in the actions of God's Providence and in the manifestations
1163 LawGod,1 | the value of this text by providing church-school lessons at
1164 LawGod,16| a person's unrestrained provoking of himself with thoughts
1165 LawGod,12| all things..." In another psalm, he addresses nature as
1166 LawGod,3 | better than all the learned psychiatrists. They distinguish the following
1167 LawGod,11| Learning And Religion~Psychologists recognize three basic powers
1168 LawGod,15| poverty, to build a church or public institution, to adopt an
1169 LawGod,1 | days.~The translation and publication of this work is reverently
1170 LawGod,24| not patriotism at all, but puffed-up national pride - that very
1171 LawGod,18| obligations exactly and punctually. He does not, however, go
1172 LawGod,6 | view, there is no need to punish anyone - neither the thief
1173 LawGod,13| people cruelly and sometimes punishes them unbearably, often from
1174 LawGod,12| form of a given idea. The purer, the more salient and more
1175 LawGod,14| positive principles which can purge it of unruly, unprincipled
1176 LawGod,17| all with prayer, with the purification and strengthening of the
1177 LawGod,12| perfect execution, does not purify and enlighten man's soul
1178 LawGod,21| by recommending that one pursue not only one's own personal
1179 LawGod,26| dry, rational pragmatism, pursuing the goal of creating an
1180 LawGod,9 | physical strength in the pursuit of sensual enjoyments and
1181 LawGod,9 | God's Grace and he did not push it aside nor reject it,
1182 LawGod,21| Ethical Systems~All the qualities of a Christian relationship
1183 LawGod,14| in life.~A more important quality of the human will however,
1184 LawGod,8 | thirst will be satisfied and quenched in full there, in blessed
1185 LawGod,21| basis of morality is the quest for that form of happiness
1186 LawGod,14| interested primarily in questions of knowledge and not morals,
1187 LawGod,12| turbulent, fiery ecstasy or a quiet, calm, profound feeling.
1188 LawGod,20| put away everything now; rage, evilness, evil-speaking,
1189 LawGod,3 | Peter compares Satan with a "raging lion which stalks about
1190 LawGod,11| Man's mind develops most rapidly of the three, primarily
1191 LawGod,26| Communism is a religion of dry, rational pragmatism, pursuing the
1192 LawGod,21| Truth - but not by the dry rationale of utilitarianism. Utilitarianism
1193 LawGod,24| carrying on life and can re-establish the strength and unity of
1194 LawGod,12| delight in beauty can either reach a turbulent, fiery ecstasy
1195 LawGod,18| faithful to itself, and it reaches a point where it fades and
1196 LawGod,7 | things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things
1197 LawGod,24| will, to have a sincere readiness to help, and to render as
1198 LawGod,24| which is removed from the realities of life.~As a child, a person'
1199 LawGod,6 | indeterminism. Applying it to the realm of morals, to the question
1200 LawGod,8 | angry, since his pride will rear up on its haunches from
1201 LawGod,15| Second Epistle, he sharply rebuked those who act indecently
1202 LawGod,25| Persian invasion, Empress Zoe recalled Tornikian to command the
1203 LawGod,13| accustomed only to demanding and receiving and not knowing how to yield,
1204 | Recently
1205 LawGod,6 | moral countenance. In this recognition of the action upon man -
1206 LawGod,2 | other hand, are incapable of recognizing the character of their actions (
1207 LawGod,21| destroys one's body and soul, recommend that one not be captivated
1208 LawGod,21| to soften this ideal by recommending that one pursue not only
1209 LawGod,20| possible, and he strives to reconcile others. Such a struggle
1210 LawGod,26| communist is marked by a red stake. How indicative and
1211 LawGod,10| the necessity itself of redemption and salvation in Christ.
1212 LawGod,23| Some people vainly wish to reduce Christianity to a mere narrowly-individualized
1213 LawGod,14| such a person is called a reed shaking in the wind.~Discipline
1214 LawGod,2 | unconscionable." The Holy Scripture refers to such stubborn sinners
1215 LawGod,1 | people seem to have paused to reflect on the meaninglessness of
1216 LawGod,6 | act upon him. All this is reflected in the features of his moral
1217 LawGod,3 | avoid giving in to sin and refrain from sinning. One will be
1218 LawGod,19| societies to aid education, refuges for children, the ill or
1219 LawGod,17| spirit of Christianity, a refusal to bear one's cross, a rejection
1220 LawGod,21| pleasant for themselves, refusing what is unpleasant (even
1221 LawGod,25| With these words, the Lord refutes all statements that war
1222 LawGod,10| Grace for salvation. While refuting Pelagius, however, Augustine
1223 LawGod,3 | truth. One who is blind can regain his sight and love the one
1224 LawGod,12| Savior tenderly and lovingly regarded lilies of the field, birds,
1225 LawGod,26| what the consequences and regardless of any considerations. The
1226 LawGod,22| realization; love alone will reign "unto ages of ages, forever."
1227 LawGod,25| with one another and peace reigned on earth. Sad reality speaks
1228 LawGod,9 | did not push it aside nor reject it, but accepted it. He
1229 LawGod,17| refusal to bear one's cross, a rejection of God and hope on Him.
1230 LawGod,24| Hosanna," when all the people rejoiced, the Savior wept. He did
1231 LawGod,22| rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth."~This is a victorious
1232 LawGod,20| rejoice with those who are rejoicing, as opposed to those who
1233 LawGod,11| of the most varied data relating not only to the religious,
1234 LawGod,14| teaches that it's "truths" are relative, and not unconditional or
1235 LawGod,26| future. While the sacred relics of the holy ascetics of
1236 LawGod,16| soul and body. Many ancient religions and philosophical teachings
1237 LawGod,14| even the person himself can rely on such an individual. In
1238 LawGod,17| remove them from himself, remembering how the apostle warns that
1239 LawGod,13| defined as a sincere, vivid remembrance of God, inseparably tied
1240 LawGod,4 | found in every person, as remnants of that natural good which
1241 LawGod,9 | essential, they live in remoteness from God.~In that far away
1242 LawGod,25| unconditionally to every act of removing a person's life. This commandment
1243 LawGod,24| readiness to help, and to render as much service as possible.
1244 LawGod,25| more significant if it is rendered unselfishly - free of any
1245 LawGod,26| an atheistic system which renounces all religion. In actual
1246 LawGod,4 | is brief and it does not repeat itself, for man lives but
1247 LawGod,18| The apostles' council repeated this in a negative form: "
1248 LawGod,18| the Evangelical words, "I repent" and promises correction.
1249 LawGod,18| trust and respect toward the repenter and, by this, often supporting
1250 LawGod,18| good intention of such a repenting person is met with mistrust
1251 LawGod,24| struggles with them and repents before God and other peoples
1252 LawGod,23| Moreover, can anyone really replace a child's mother?~But children
1253 LawGod,10| God's kingdom, our Savior replied, "Amen, amen, I tell you,
1254 LawGod,25| You will hear of wars and reports of wars. See that you are
1255 LawGod,23| etc; and especially, the representatives of lawful authority who
1256 LawGod,9 | that this senseless son represents each sinner. Man's betrayal
1257 LawGod,8 | can be tested:~Begin to reproach a person to his face, for
1258 LawGod,19| When our Lord Jesus Christ reproached the scribes and Pharisees,
1259 LawGod,23| affronting their parents, reproaching them to their face for their "
1260 LawGod,26| animalistic satiety and spiritual reprobation). It is significant that,
1261 LawGod,18| willingly responds to a request for a service and tries
1262 LawGod,23| this." And, of course, this requirement is brought forth precisely
1263 LawGod,2 | only the most basic moral requirements are innate - a sort of moral
1264 LawGod,25| defeated the enemy and rescued the homeland from danger.~
1265 LawGod,15| to struggle in the most resolute manner with one or another
1266 LawGod,9 | firm intention, a decisive resolve - he arose, "and went to
1267 LawGod,15| assessed his strength and resolved that with God's help he
1268 LawGod,23| children must understand their responsibilities no less than the parents.
1269 LawGod,18| since such compassion and responsiveness is seldom constant and faithful
1270 LawGod,15| common now in our nervous, restless, vain times, an Orthodox
1271 LawGod,2 | balance if one does not restore peace and calmness in the
1272 LawGod,21| example, is beneficial in restoring health, but at the same
1273 LawGod,5 | could do this), but they did restrain it and establish firm and
1274 LawGod,21| life in which one can be restrained from crime by religious
1275 LawGod,16| illnesses which so often result from a disordered life,
1276 LawGod,8 | weeping over sins and the resultant loss of God's Kingdom. Moreover,
1277 LawGod,16| and the body which will be resurrected and reunited with the soul
1278 LawGod,20| Consciously thought out and retained anger can pass over into
1279 LawGod,21| lofty form. It nevertheless retains its first basic insolvency.
1280 LawGod,6 | fact that the repentant man returns in thought to the moment
1281 LawGod,16| will be resurrected and reunited with the soul before Christ'
1282 LawGod,13| will be in their hands" (Rev. 21:4; Is. 35:10).~Here
1283 LawGod,20| as spiritual doctors who reveal the sores of our proud and
1284 LawGod,26| Church in apostolic times reveals that, in those times, it
1285 LawGod,1 | publication of this work is reverently dedicated to the memory
1286 LawGod,21| the same time, weapons - a revolver or a knife - are beneficial
1287 LawGod,3 | and clearly, eliciting a revulsion to the sin. The former self-assurance
1288 LawGod,2 | conscience also acts in man as a rewarder. This happens when we, having
1289 LawGod,3 | are also external goods, riches, comforts, immoral dances,
1290 LawGod,17| But these words will ring with untruth in the case
1291 LawGod,27| obligations to our highest, we rise to their apex - our obligations
1292 LawGod,4 | thrown upwards and stops rising, it will not remain suspended
1293 LawGod,22| fulfillment of the law."(Rm.12:10).~
1294 LawGod,24| Samaritan bestowed upon the robbed and wounded Jew - a man
1295 LawGod,24| Lk.13:34-35). When He rode into Jerusalem to the cries
1296 LawGod,5 | is holy, just and good" (Rom. 7:12).~
1297 LawGod,22| enlarged for you ... there is room for you in us..." "Thus
1298 LawGod,16| All this is a spiritual rottenness and pestilence, corrupting
1299 LawGod,26| incorruptibility and fragrance, the rotting corpse of the often-embalmed
1300 LawGod,4 | opposite of sin is virtue. Its rudiments are found in every person,
1301 LawGod,18| In general, the Christian rule of life teaches us that,
1302 LawGod,25| If you do not obey the ruler, you will have to answer
1303 LawGod,23| directed us to pray: "for rulers and all those in authority,"
1304 LawGod,26| communist government. The ruling class has no concern for
1305 LawGod,9 | He saw and took pity, and running out, threw his arms around
1306 LawGod,23| without reason that a child runs directly to its mother,
1307 LawGod,12| The leading monasteries of Russia were founded in localities
1308 LawGod,26| communism, but force; not sacrificial love, but envy and hatred.~
1309 LawGod,24| land, its good estate and safety.~One can, in fact, observe
1310 LawGod,12| idea. The purer, the more salient and more perfect the form
1311 LawGod,20| Apostle James asks, "Can salty water and sweet water both
1312 LawGod,23| strictness. This is the sanctuary of her service to the Lord;
1313 LawGod,20| during Whose birth the angels sang: "And on earth, peace..."
1314 LawGod,7 | at once, St Seraphim of Sarov said, "Do everything slowly,
1315 LawGod,26| paradise of animalistic satiety and spiritual reprobation).
1316 LawGod,15| experience what a fulfilling satisfaction is felt by one who works
1317 LawGod,8 | hunger and thirst will be satisfied and quenched in full there,
1318 LawGod,11| taught in Russian secondary schools). In these, Christianity
1319 LawGod,23| of the best artists and scientists bears a clearly Christian
1320 LawGod,19| Jesus Christ reproached the scribes and Pharisees, He usually
1321 LawGod,3 | own personal sins, as the Scriptural indictment says, "There
1322 LawGod,3 | and he be cast into the sea."~The enticers are also
1323 LawGod,23| however, is life; it is a new seal on all the vital relationships
1324 LawGod,2 | sinners as people with a "seared" conscience. Their spiritual
1325 LawGod,11| formerly taught in Russian secondary schools). In these, Christianity
1326 LawGod,25| some narrowly one-sided sectarians can pretend that war can
1327 LawGod,15| well, and what a squalid sediment remains in the soul after
1328 LawGod,3 | especially the willful, conscious seducers and corrupters of youth
1329 LawGod,3 | God. The milieu around us seduces us, the people around us
1330 LawGod,10| baptized. Nevertheless, the seeds of sin - sinful habits and
1331 | seemed
1332 LawGod,3 | bear in mind that even a seemingly minor sin such as gossiping,
1333 LawGod,25| human rights, or against seizure, brutal invasion and violence.
1334 LawGod,15| the family, etc., he must select a definite, constant good
1335 LawGod,22| is the personal "I," our self gratification which we receive
1336 LawGod,3 | revulsion to the sin. The former self-assurance disappears and the man is
1337 LawGod,6 | that we act freely. This is self-deceit."~The eminent 17th century
1338 LawGod,22| faith and even struggles of self-denial and martyrdom: without love
1339 LawGod,14| primary importance, for inner self-discipline takes the place of external
1340 LawGod,23| constantly observes deceit and self-embellishing of both body and soul, a
1341 LawGod,24| care must not be egoistic, self-enclosing love. While caring for those
1342 LawGod,2 | sincere repentance.~It is self-evident that man bears a moral responsibility
1343 LawGod,20| him no self-satisfying or self-interest. On the contrary, he seeks
1344 LawGod,22| another."~Such is the ideal of self-less Christian love. It embraces
1345 LawGod,19| fateful for egoists and self-lovers: "How did you serve your
1346 LawGod,7 | constant struggle of moral self-perfection. Of course, Christian perfection
1347 LawGod,20| There is within him no self-satisfying or self-interest. On the
1348 LawGod,11| and strengthened.~It is self-understood that a Christian, while
1349 LawGod,23| children become, the more self-willed they become, alas, affronting
1350 LawGod,22| against the egoistically selfish character of non-Christian,
1351 LawGod,23| partners has that very same selfless, self-denying character
1352 LawGod,8 | is from God. From our own selves, we add only evil - self-love,
1353 LawGod,9 | guardianship of his father. The son senselessly decided to betray his father,
1354 LawGod,22| only act on the external senses of man and not on his heart).
1355 LawGod,24| and stones them that are sent unto you; how often would
1356 LawGod,13| under greenhouse conditions, separated from life, grow up soft,
1357 LawGod,6 | beyond this, there is a deep separation. While the determinists
1358 LawGod,7 | attain holiness at once, St Seraphim of Sarov said, "Do everything
1359 LawGod,23| the appearance of a whole series of institutions of charity
1360 LawGod,17| Lord, to the soul of Your servant, for he placed his hope
1361 LawGod,6 | the freedom of the will is served by the fact of the experience
1362 LawGod,10| was clearly and decisively settled in the fifth century. A
1363 LawGod,14| person is called a reed shaking in the wind.~Discipline
1364 LawGod,8 | soul, but a superficial, shallow feeling. The Holy Fathers
1365 | shalt
1366 LawGod,17| of the Holy Mysteries.~A shameful, non-Christian death, on
1367 LawGod,3 | dances, dirty literature, shameless attire, etc. - all of this
1368 LawGod,16| alluring colors, with complete shamelessness. Contrived music, dances
1369 LawGod,4 | Christian, with God's help, shapes his own earthly life, in
1370 LawGod,9 | came to him asking for his share of the inheritance. Having
1371 LawGod,20| pass through this life like sheep amongst wolves, according
1372 LawGod,23| dishonor to those mothers who shirk from the raising of their
1373 LawGod,9 | threw his arms around his shoulders and kissed him. The son
1374 LawGod,17| drinks. Of course, one would show far greater steadiness and
1375 LawGod,11| whole world, himself, and showing the true sense and aim of
1376 LawGod,3 | lives of the saints. We, sick and infirm, are specially
1377 LawGod,25| interests, if we moan and sigh while our deeds remain far
1378 LawGod,12| feeling is the term which signifies the sense of the beautiful -
1379 LawGod,11| yet not do what I say?" Similarly, His Apostle says, "Not
1380 LawGod,10| salvation is worked out simultaneously through the action of God'
1381 LawGod,8 | one manner by which the sincerity and depth of humility can
1382 LawGod,12| in the music of church singing and in iconography. It is
1383 LawGod,19| This type of falsehood is singularly devilish, for the very word "
1384 LawGod,23| ascetic-spouses live "as brother and sister," their mutual love is distinguished
1385 LawGod,24| are his parents, brothers, sisters, and other relatives. At
1386 LawGod,10| God and we only have to "sit with arms folded" and await
1387 LawGod,21| coincide. Secondly, there are situations in practical life in which
1388 LawGod,19| neighbors?" Christ enumerates six particular forms of physical
1389 LawGod,26| at any measure, even the slaughter of all those who do not
1390 LawGod,6 | not act freely, but were slaves, unwilling fulfillers of
1391 LawGod,5 | in the manner of blind, slavish obedience, and external
1392 LawGod,25| Cyril the Enlightener of the Slavs said, "We meekly endure
1393 LawGod,25| cannot even eat or drink or sleep. One who truly loves one'
1394 LawGod,15| example, to cease drinking, smoking, swearing, etc.)... It is
1395 LawGod,20| to seize upon the prey, snatching it away from one another,
1396 LawGod,11| Christianity considers the so-called "worldly" sciences or education
1397 LawGod,13| protection of children from sober reality brings only negative
1398 LawGod,24| to its inadequacies, but soberly looks at its properties
1399 LawGod,26| to realize the ideas of socialism. This form of communism
1400 LawGod,13| separated from life, grow up soft, spoiled and not well adjusted
1401 LawGod,21| utilitarian philosophers strive to soften this ideal by recommending
1402 LawGod,23| it is so easy to ruin or soil the child's soul. Moreover,
1403 LawGod,3 | truth to him and one who is soiled with vices and passions
1404 LawGod,12| soul but rather debases and soils it.~
1405 LawGod,25| exist, sometimes as the sole defense of truth and human
1406 LawGod,11| that Christianity is not solely and exclusively a sphere
1407 LawGod,20| What a shame this is, what sordidness, what an insult to the purity
1408 LawGod,20| spiritual doctors who reveal the sores of our proud and vainglorious
1409 LawGod,18| teaches us that, in such sorrowful events as arguments and
1410 LawGod,24| to know of the joys and sorrows of the surrounding world
1411 LawGod,2 | requirements are innate - a sort of moral instinct - but
1412 LawGod,12| sensations are of different sorts - from the lowest organic
1413 LawGod,7 | first. No, it is something sought for, acquired and worked
1414 LawGod,3 | reproaches of the conscience sound loudly and clearly, eliciting
1415 LawGod,22| s salvation, He does not spare even His Only Begotten Son.
1416 LawGod,3 | We, sick and infirm, are specially defended by Christ against
1417 LawGod,16| shadow. We will not speak of specific illnesses which so often
1418 LawGod,7 | In this parable, the Lord specifically called earthly wealth, gathered
1419 LawGod,20| argumentativeness, abusive speech. How strange it is: people
1420 LawGod,15| remains in the soul after time spent in thoughtless emptiness.~
1421 LawGod,22| a tinkling cymbal" (like spiritless objects which only act on
1422 LawGod,21| prolonged, and also more spiritualized. Such, for example, are
1423 LawGod,20| anger can pass over into spitefulness - which is so opposed to
1424 LawGod,23| however, when the parents spoil their children too much,
1425 LawGod,13| from life, grow up soft, spoiled and not well adjusted for
1426 LawGod,3 | almost unnoticed by himself, spontaneously. Thus, the struggle with
1427 LawGod,17| of "courage," a type of sportive passion wherein a person
1428 LawGod,6 | toward and falling upon the spot which it desires. But, in
1429 LawGod,15| honorably and well, and what a squalid sediment remains in the
1430 LawGod,21| satisfactions which are more stable and prolonged, and also
1431 LawGod,3 | distinguish the following stages in sin: The first moment
1432 LawGod,8 | that evil of sin, which so stains both himself and other people.
1433 LawGod,26| communist is marked by a red stake. How indicative and symbolic
1434 LawGod,3 | with a "raging lion which stalks about seeking whom he might
1435 LawGod,4 | vigilant and who prays, standing on guard for his survival.~
1436 LawGod,12| sun and moon, praise Him stars and lights..."~Orthodox
1437 LawGod,3 | with vainglory and often startles one with a complete absence
1438 LawGod,24| one family, without any state-national differences and divisions.~
1439 LawGod,1 | meaninglessness of such a statement. For, the future of the
1440 LawGod,25| words, the Lord refutes all statements that war is avoidable.~True,
1441 LawGod,14| alone has an unconditionally steadfast authority in this area;
1442 LawGod,2 | example, be just, do not steal, etc), are norms, demands,
1443 LawGod,18| does not, however, go a step further than these legal
1444 LawGod,10| teacher Augustine [of Hippo] stepped forth against this teaching,
1445 LawGod,9 | lowered and then elevated by steps. At first, betrayal of God,
1446 LawGod,7 | parable about the careless steward, the main thought and the
1447 LawGod,2 | listen to his conscience but stifles it, suppresses its voice
1448 LawGod,14| brotherhood (an understanding stolen from it by those not of
1449 LawGod,24| which kills the prophets and stones them that are sent unto
1450 LawGod,5 | development at which man then stood thousands of years ago.
1451 LawGod,17| example of this in the Gospel story about the rich young man
1452 LawGod,20| of meek behavior is the straightest and most solid; for it is
1453 LawGod,5 | seems strange, then how much stranger is one who remains in the
1454 LawGod,23| people on earth have not strayed far from Christian ideals,
1455 LawGod,14| Christian who wishes to strengthen his will, his character,
1456 LawGod,11| capabilities of man are formed and strengthened.~It is self-understood that
1457 LawGod,3 | illness and an ulcer which has stricken all mankind, both in his
1458 LawGod,12| loved and valued by the strictest of our ascetics, who had
1459 LawGod,23| and example and love and strictness. This is the sanctuary of
1460 LawGod,24| Moses showed an especially striking example of love for his
1461 LawGod,20| First Ecumenical Council he struck the blasphemous heretic
1462 LawGod,3 | although with God's help they struggled with it, yet they humbly
1463 LawGod,3 | soul? The holy fathers, strugglers of Christian asceticism
1464 LawGod,20| angered by the falseness and stubbornness of the Pharisees (Mk. 3:
1465 LawGod,1 | church-school text for intermediate students, but its value far exceeds
1466 LawGod,11| three, primarily through the study of the sciences, and through
1467 LawGod,3 | of these little ones to stumble and sin, it were better
1468 LawGod,3 | saints, strong in spirit, are subjected. Nevertheless, Satan does
1469 LawGod,15| unpleasant, like a heavy, subjecting yoke, and they strive to
1470 LawGod,6 | from man not a mechanical submission, but a freely given filial
1471 LawGod,8 | Christian way: humbly and submissively. They are truly blessed,
1472 LawGod,5 | Testament, he strives toward submitting to Him as a son submits
1473 LawGod,15| most insignificant of his subordinates who fulfil their obligations
1474 LawGod,19| organized, bringing many substantial benefits. Of course, in
1475 LawGod,14| stronger in character, succeeds in life.~A more important
1476 LawGod,20| opposed to those who envy the successes of others. In order to free
1477 LawGod,7 | Do everything slowly, not suddenly; virtue is not a pear -
1478 LawGod,18| even if his neighbor will suffer from this. Of course, in
1479 LawGod,22| heaven, was made Incarnate, suffered and died so that He, through
1480 LawGod,9 | sin, hungers spiritually, suffers and languishes? He tries
1481 LawGod,3 | also tempting us by sinful suggestions of all kinds. it is because
1482 LawGod,21| understands happiness as the sum of the satisfactions and
1483 LawGod,10| although He constantly summons him to salvation.~
1484 LawGod,24| extremes and errors into which "super-patriots" fall. A Christian patriot,
1485 LawGod,8 | experience of the soul, but a superficial, shallow feeling. The Holy
1486 LawGod,15| who act indecently and are superstitious, and he precisely sets forth
1487 LawGod,23| often leave them without supervision. The child can receive a
1488 LawGod,18| repenter and, by this, often supporting and strengthening on the
1489 LawGod,2 | their altar. The torturers supposed that the martyrs would jerk
1490 LawGod,2 | conscience but stifles it, suppresses its voice with falseness
1491 LawGod,24| love my own people, then surely I must also love the Chinese,
1492 LawGod,23| the family bear one common surname, for they must live a common,
1493 LawGod,4 | standing on guard for his survival.~
1494 LawGod,23| only on truth; it cannot survive on falsehood. From this,
1495 LawGod,4 | rising, it will not remain suspended in the air, but will fall
1496 LawGod,15| he lost paradise. "In the sweat of your brow you will eat
1497 LawGod,20| asks, "Can salty water and sweet water both run from the
1498 LawGod,9 | would have been glad to eat swine's food, but no one gave
1499 LawGod,26| emerged in history as a sworn and bitter enemy of Christianity.
1500 LawGod,26| stake. How indicative and symbolic for both. With the one -
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