Work, Chapter

1501 LawGod,13|           kinder, more pious and more sympathetic.~In order to accomplish
1502 LawGod,13|              the elevated feelings of sympathy, mercy, compassion, etc.
1503 LawGod,10|           whose explanation is called synergism (cooperating). According
1504 LawGod,4 |               life. Consequently, the tasks of man's earthly life consist
1505 LawGod,11|            the saying, "In matters of taste there can be no dispute").
1506 LawGod,10|              salvation in Christ. The teacher Augustine [of Hippo] stepped
1507 LawGod,10|               replied, "Amen, amen, I tell you, except one be born
1508 LawGod,13|            who love their children to temper them. Above all, there must
1509 LawGod,23|            then for himself. The Lord tempered such a Christian marital
1510 LawGod,3 |              more deceptive, and also tempting us by sinful suggestions
1511 LawGod,15|             although less so now) has tended to regard physical labor
1512 LawGod,5 |            beloved father.~There is a tendency to regard the Old Testament
1513 LawGod,12|             see how Christ our Savior tenderly and lovingly regarded lilies
1514 LawGod,24|           Such errors include all the tenets of cosmopolitanism which
1515 LawGod,12|              Aesthetic feeling is the term which signifies the sense
1516 LawGod,19|             that one cannot value, in terms of money, the service of
1517 LawGod,26|              there reigns a political terror such as has never before
1518 LawGod,8 |              depth of humility can be tested:~Begin to reproach a person
1519 LawGod,24|          Jewish people is filled with testimony of how the Jews loved their
1520 LawGod,8 |               the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of the Heavens!"~
1521 LawGod,6 |            evil. According to learned theological definition, "freedom of
1522          | thereby
1523 LawGod,15|              the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, Apostle Paul wrote about
1524 LawGod,13|              adjusted for life, often thick-skinned egoists, accustomed only
1525 LawGod,6 |                 neither the thief for thievery, nor the murderer for murder,
1526 LawGod,11|        worldly education in which the thinking powers and capabilities
1527 LawGod,20|               hungry, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink. Do not
1528 LawGod,22|        clearly revealed as in Chapter Thirteen of Apostle Paul's First
1529 LawGod,15|              soul after time spent in thoughtless emptiness.~A false and sinful
1530 LawGod,23|               to see the precipitous, thoughtlessly careless and completely
1531 LawGod,5 |               at which man then stood thousands of years ago. Under the
1532 LawGod,8 |           precisely to them that this threatening warning of the Lord is directed: "
1533 LawGod,17|            him its slave? This danger threatens everyone who becomes addicted
1534 LawGod,4 |           truth demands of one on the threshold of eternity.~Each Christian,
1535 LawGod,2 |            good, this is a sin."~In a tight bond with this action of
1536 LawGod,22|               as clanging brass and a tinkling cymbal" (like spiritless
1537 LawGod,20|               See how great a blaze a tiny spark can kindle. And the
1538 LawGod,23|          worse than an unbeliever" (1 Tm.5:8).~It often happens that,
1539 LawGod,23|            take care of them, loving, toiling, denying themselves in much,
1540 LawGod,21|             Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall be dead."~Other
1541 LawGod,22|               Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but
1542 LawGod,2 |               Christianity, the pagan tormentors often placed incense in
1543 LawGod,22|          break it, neither trials nor torments, nor sorrow, nor deprivations,
1544 LawGod,2 |           burning on their altar. The torturers supposed that the martyrs
1545 LawGod,15|              began grandly to build a tower, but could not complete
1546 LawGod,3 |             into sin in paradise. The toxin of this sinfulness contaminated
1547 LawGod,2 |               else, if they have been trained, in the way they have been
1548 LawGod,14|           examine the question of the training and development of man's
1549 LawGod,26|            ideology, Soviet communism tramples on all justice. The object
1550 LawGod,18|              fulfils all his personal transactions and obligations exactly
1551 LawGod,23|               consecrate, elevate and transform a marriage union.~In a Christian
1552 LawGod,23|           beginnings. But perhaps the transforming and elevating influence
1553 LawGod,7 |         necessity to use the earthly, transitory life for preparation toward
1554 LawGod,1 |               of these last days.~The translation and publication of this
1555 LawGod,17|          acquiring for himself a true treasure - in heaven.~A person who
1556 LawGod,12|              of the field, birds, fig trees and grape vines. Even in
1557 LawGod,3 |               who believes in God and trembles but who nevertheless hates
1558 LawGod,13|              arrive when life finally triumphs over death and God's truth
1559 LawGod,19|          especially among the youth - try to seem more clever, more
1560 LawGod,12|             beauty can either reach a turbulent, fiery ecstasy or a quiet,
1561 LawGod,24|            also love the Chinese, the Turks or any other people. Not
1562 LawGod,24|            another occasion, He said, turning to Jerusalem, "O Jerusalem,
1563 LawGod,22|           path (at the end of Chapter twelve), and then explains, with
1564 LawGod,1 |           guide us along the dark and twisted path of these last days.~
1565 LawGod,3 |            leprosy, an illness and an ulcer which has stricken all mankind,
1566 LawGod,17|              soul and heart, becoming unable to tear himself away from
1567 LawGod,20|                for a Christian, it is unacceptable. "Do not revenge yourselves
1568 LawGod,7 |               Christian perfection is unattainably high. "Be perfect as your
1569 LawGod,13|               sometimes punishes them unbearably, often from their early
1570 LawGod,26|            exiles and imprisonment in unbelievably harsh conditions. This is
1571 LawGod,14|          question is so difficult for unbelievers, for a believing Christian
1572 LawGod,14|             according to them? For an unbelieving person, an answer to this
1573 LawGod,3 |               a sinful impression, an unclean thought or some other temptation.
1574 LawGod,14|         truths" are relative, and not unconditional or authentic. From practical
1575 LawGod,6 |           given example is altogether unconvincing.~The insolvency of determinism,
1576 LawGod,12|        direction are brought about by uncovering the person's ability to
1577 LawGod,16|       commanded us to lead a pure and undefiled life...~How is one who wishes
1578 LawGod,13|          emotions of the human heart. Understandably, many other emotions have
1579 LawGod,11|               which must be known and understood: and for this, learning
1580 LawGod,5 |               soul, man would be able unerringly and firmly to direct the
1581 LawGod,15|            and make himself fulfil it unfailingly, as his obligation. Pledges
1582 LawGod,10|            desire, for He created him unfettered. Man is free to choose good
1583 LawGod,9 |      deathless spirit grows weak.~The unfortunate-one would perish if it were
1584 LawGod,13|           often this does not happen. Unfortunately, in many good Orthodox Christian
1585 LawGod,1 |              with a deep, sincere and unhypocritical love, Metropolitan Philaret
1586 LawGod,23|              in non-Christian marital unions. In the lives of saints,
1587 LawGod,23|            His Divine word, "What God unites, let man not separate."
1588 LawGod,2 |              a concept of morality is universal in mankind. Of course, only
1589 LawGod,24|              man is a "citizen of the universe," and not of his own state?
1590 LawGod,20|            person utilizes it with an unkind heart. Then a person attunes
1591 LawGod,20|               person is above all, an unmalicious and simple person and an
1592 LawGod,20|         sordid and repulsive habit of unprintable swearing - to which so many
1593 LawGod,6 |           clearly disadvantageous and unprofitable. The zeal of the holy martyrs
1594 LawGod,16|               results from a person's unrestrained provoking of himself with
1595 LawGod,22|              itself, is not proud nor unseemly in conduct." It makes one
1596 LawGod,25|         significant if it is rendered unselfishly - free of any material calculations
1597 LawGod,22|               and then explains, with unshakable conviction, how much higher
1598 LawGod,20|     indicating that anger can also be unsinful. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself
1599 LawGod,13|               near to the soul of the unspoiled child.~These emotions about
1600 LawGod,18|           type of person can be cold, unsympathetic and pitiless. Such a person
1601 LawGod,8 |          perfection of a Christian is unthinkable. Christ the Savior begins
1602          | until
1603 LawGod,16|       fragrant freshness, strength of untouched power of the soul and body,
1604 LawGod,8 |            and its triumph over human untruths and desires it more strongly
1605 LawGod,20|              and simple person and an unwavering opponent of all egoism.
1606 LawGod,15|             set yourself to fulfil it unwaveringly.~
1607 LawGod,15|              in the parable about the unwise builder. In the parable,
1608 LawGod,9 |              and before you, and I am unworthy to be called your son."
1609 LawGod,11|              religious education (and up-bringing). One must remember that
1610 LawGod,4 |               a stone which is thrown upwards and stops rising, it will
1611 LawGod,3 |            example is instructive and urgent for all those who would
1612          | used
1613 LawGod,21|                Thus, the principle of usefulness, or beneficialness, cannot
1614 LawGod,3 |            sinned, but points out the uselessness of prayer for the sin of
1615 LawGod,21|       themselves to be eudemonists or utilitarians can, in real life, be honorable
1616 LawGod,20|           become sinful when a person utilizes it with an unkind heart.
1617 LawGod,6 |          shalt go astray ... ye shall utterly perish ... I have set before
1618 LawGod,20|            the sores of our proud and vainglorious soul. Still, anger which
1619 LawGod,23|              blessedness. Some people vainly wish to reduce Christianity
1620 LawGod,12|               in nature was loved and valued by the strictest of our
1621 LawGod,20|            must recall that one's own vanity and egoistic competitiveness
1622 LawGod,13|              always sees the infinite vault of heaven above him in the
1623 LawGod,24|         observe that the lives of the verbose preachers of cosmopolitanism
1624 LawGod,22|           love always seeks truth and verity and not falsehood and obligingness.
1625 LawGod,11|             liked by another and vice versa (from this fact, we derive
1626 LawGod,22|         rejoices in truth."~This is a victorious force, the power of humble
1627 LawGod,21|            that which they like?~When viewed from the strictly Orthodox
1628 LawGod,4 |           Garden of Gethsemane, "Keep vigil and pray lest you fall into
1629 LawGod,4 |          possible only for one who is vigilant and who prays, standing
1630 LawGod,12|            birds, fig trees and grape vines. Even in the Old Testament
1631 LawGod,21|            feelings - apprehension to violate the law of Highest Truth -
1632 LawGod,23|              is the fifth commandment violated among us! Even those children
1633 LawGod,25|               point out that war is a violation of the commandment, "Do
1634 LawGod,3 |              is such that it makes it virtually impossible for a man to
1635 LawGod,4 |         toward virtue. In order to be virtuous, however, one must not only
1636 LawGod,19|               I was in prison and you visited Me." And St. John Chrysostom
1637 LawGod,17|              youth on. Youth has much vivacity and sufficient energy without
1638 LawGod,13|              be defined as a sincere, vivid remembrance of God, inseparably
1639 LawGod,17|             and to "warm oneself with vodka" is so unnecessary. A proverb
1640 LawGod,18|            joyfully receives the good volition of the neighbor, emphasizing
1641 LawGod,26|        Christian communism is totally voluntary. No one says, "Give us what
1642 LawGod,16|               pictures and literature vying with each other in praising
1643 LawGod,17|            remember that one must not wait until this ruinous passion
1644 LawGod,9 |             means that the father was waiting and was perhaps looking
1645 LawGod,6 |             love the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to
1646 LawGod,26|             preaches class hatred and warfare and is based on egoism.
1647 LawGod,17|            energy without it, and to "warm oneself with vodka" is so
1648 LawGod,16|            gaze - and the gaze Christ warned us about went no further
1649 LawGod,8 |            them that this threatening warning of the Lord is directed: "
1650 LawGod,9 |          senseless son squandered and wasted his possessions, living
1651 LawGod,9 |             that the senseless sinner wastes his spiritual and physical
1652 LawGod,23|      spiritual instructors,) for they watch over your souls and must
1653 LawGod,21|             moral support when one is wavering on the edge of temptation.~
1654 LawGod,16|             which corrupt, defile and weaken it. Among such sins, the
1655 LawGod,8 |               directed: "Woe unto you wealthy! For you have received your
1656 LawGod,21|         health, but at the same time, weapons - a revolver or a knife -
1657 LawGod,16|               and body, into a bright wedded union consecrated by God
1658 LawGod,6 |              of his wrong action, and weeps over his sin, clearly acknowledging
1659 LawGod,18|           people do, rather place the welfare and good of your neighbor
1660 LawGod,6 |              upon his every desire or whim (the Holy Apostle Peter
1661 LawGod,14|           with one's sinful habits or whims) this work on oneself must
1662 LawGod,9 |            spiritual emptiness with a whirlpool of empty pleasures, which
1663 LawGod,15|              never divides work into "white collar" and "blue collar"
1664 LawGod,14|      principles, since it ceaselessly widens, deepens and changes much.
1665 LawGod,15|             and amusement is becoming widespread in contemporary society.
1666 LawGod,21|      frightened by the height of love willed by the Gospel, and they
1667 LawGod,3 |              likewise (especially the willful, conscious seducers and
1668 LawGod,21|           life, always be egoists who willfully demand and take what is
1669 LawGod,18|              and careful with all. He willingly responds to a request for
1670 LawGod,14|          called a reed shaking in the wind.~Discipline is necessary
1671 LawGod,24|           gathers her brood under her wings."(Lk.13:34-35). When He
1672 LawGod,13|              be healed, for "God will wipe away every tear from their
1673 LawGod,12|              creation, exclaimed, "In wisdom hast Thou made them all ...
1674 LawGod,18|           Christian heart. Its basic, wise, clear and comprehensible
1675 LawGod,17|            Holy Church by its canons, withholds a Christian burial to those
1676 LawGod,23|            says, "Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the Church
1677 LawGod,26|        religious ideology of both. No wonder, then, that the communists
1678 LawGod,22|          understanding all mysteries, wonder-working, faith and even struggles
1679 LawGod,20|            anger that St Nicholas the Wonderworker was aroused when, at the
1680 LawGod,23|          Christian, good, responsive, work-loving, useful to the Church and
1681 LawGod,24|         people betrayed their God and worshipped a golden calf. Then, the
1682 LawGod,22|            love do they acquire their worth.~"Love is longsuffering
1683 LawGod,24|          bestowed upon the robbed and wounded Jew - a man from a nation
1684 LawGod,16|               doubt the most terrible wounds of contemporary mankind.
1685 LawGod,19|              seduction and falsehood, woven by the devil, which entangles
1686 LawGod,24|            his work of preaching more wrathfully and stubbornly than did
1687 LawGod,6 |             of the performance of his wrong action, and weeps over his
1688 LawGod,15|              like a heavy, subjecting yoke, and they strive to remove
1689 LawGod,1 |          Metropolitan Philaret of New York.~ ~
1690          | yours
1691 LawGod,6 | disadvantageous and unprofitable. The zeal of the holy martyrs serves
1692 LawGod,20|           from a pure source, fervent zealousness about God's glory. Anger
1693 LawGod,24|              how the Jews loved their Zion, their Jerusalem, their
1694 LawGod,25|             Persian invasion, Empress Zoe recalled Tornikian to command