Chapter

  1 Intro|  un-Orthodox~tendencies of Church life, in 1918 he was appointed
  2 Intro|   Metropolitan Anthony’s personal life, as of his theology, was~
  3 Intro|       Denominations?” in Orthodox Life, 1970, No. 2). Although
  4 Intro|        many books about spiritual life,~such as the Philokalia
  5 Intro|      attention to their spiritual life. The special value of Metropolitan~
  6 Intro|     remarkably relevant to modern life, although of~course there
  7 Intro|            his comments on~Church life often do not apply today.
  8 Intro|         phenomena of contemporary life.~A feature that should he
  9 Intro|        Church and Her Teaching in Life, Vol. 2, Montreal, 1970,
 10 1    |     opened to~them. Of course, as life becomes more complicated
 11 1    |         brought up apart from the life of the laity and have been
 12 1    |        attitude towards religious life as a constant~inner struggle
 13 1    |          exceptional event in the life of the person confessing
 14 1    |          as~the main task in your life obtaining experience in
 15 1    |        the conditions of ordinary life.~But how can one command
 16 2    | cultivated by centuries of Church life; although Church life has
 17 2    |      Church life; although Church life has been shaken in our days,~ ~
 18 2    |          to claim to convert to a life of virtue all those who
 19 3    |      disposition and, indeed, his life itself.~He himself will
 20 4    |            the customs of village life are very tenacious and the
 21 4    |    peasant is~bound in his way of life by a multitude of things
 22 4    |        multitude of things in his life as a farmer and as a family~
 23 4    |          and the Christian way of life, which~has made the struggle
 24 4    |           state and correct one’s life.~Without this condition,
 25 4    |     Christians also listen to the life of St Mary of Egypt on the
 26 5    |           the correction of their life. In general this is the
 27 5    |         same thing, about eternal life, when they drew near to
 28 5    |          oneself, checking on the life of~one’s own soul, reverent
 29 5    |        understanding of spiritual life, i.e. to read the book The
 30 5    |        most part, for one’s whole life. I will~give just one example.
 31 5    |         had been placed on him in life: “Is it really impossible
 32 6    |         and from various walks~of life. Of course, even then we
 33 6    |        varied~conditions of inner life and external situations
 34 6    |         is there any sense in our life, if it comes to an end here
 35 6    |          and the~senselessness of life; when people talk of denying
 36 6    |          or not; lead a religious life and you will find out for
 37 6    |    Scripture, but there is in the life of the Apostle John (the
 38 7    |          informed about~spiritual life, who will explain to them
 39 8    |         usually end their earthly life by suicide. Let the sinner
 40 8    |          the circumstances of his life and do not announce the
 41 9    |          the fiftieth year of~his life, and previously he had not
 42 9    |        round to this. He lived a “life like a drinking~bout,” passing
 43 9    |         to total removal of their life from God’s temple, but so~
 44 9    |           and people of righteous~life. What were the spiritual
 45 9    |       spent the last years of his life retired to a monastery in
 46 9    |          spiritual works. See his life in “The Orthodox Word,”
 47 10   |         the whole of local church life, if a whole society is seized
 48 10   |        spiritual epidemic and the life of a whole parish~or diocese
 49 10   |           was a man of truly holy life, but the “Johannites” carried
 50 10   |   illustrated by referring to~the life of “Svyatogorets”9 about
 51 12   |            and that in the future life.~Of course, it is not only
 52 12   |         as those deeply sunk in a life of dissolution do not consider~
 53 12   |           also people who observe life intelligently can always
 54 13   |           lead a perfectly chaste life. It is~futile to think that
 55 13   |        this sin end their earthly life by suicide. There is~also
 56 13   | incapability of leading a married life or even idiocy and epilepsy.~
 57 13   |           desiring to lead a~pure life, it cannot return to its
 58 13   |        general, his conditions of life favour the development of
 59 13   |        person’s soul, then sexual life is far more closely connected
 60 13   |         And so it is not virginal life; but depraved fantasies
 61 13   |           the sinfulness of their life and put an end~to the unconcerned
 62 13   |           the work to which one’s life is~dedicated, and to choose
 63 13   |          as a companion for one’s life a woman with whom one can
 64 14   |   bitterness over an~unsuccessful life, or else they are tormented
 65 14   |          conditions of his family life and work, and then say~something
 66 14   |     concerns very closely his own life and the life of his family.
 67 14   |      closely his own life and the life of his family. Of course,~
 68 14   |   consequences of his~intemperate life, or what may easily happen
 69 14   |           his personal and~family life.~Nevertheless, almost the
 70 14   |           passion and position in life and, on the other, those
 71 15   |        Christian vocation has for life. Following the directions
 72 15   |          and phenomena in~his own life and the life surrounding
 73 15   |           in~his own life and the life surrounding him from this
 74 15   |  spiritual struggle and~spiritual life. If we have achieved this
 75 15   |     fathers, then in their future~life and activity they will be
 76 15   |       false views on religion and life in general which prevent
 77 15   |           are completely alone in life. A wise answer from the~
 78 15   |           has introduced into his life. Perhaps the~penitent will
 79 16   |  statesmanship and in the end his life itself. For envy our Lord~
 80 17   |          is mindful of the future life and avoids serious sins,~
 81 17   |           activity, for all~their life. These are not infrequently
 82 17   |           for maintaining a pious life in the Church and for acquiring~
 83 17   | ever-memorable” even during their life, as well as after~death.
 84 18   |       left the patriarchal~family life and made contact with new
 85 18   |    contact with new conditions of life. What needs to be instilled
 86 18   |         this with an example from life around us. I, for example,~
 87 18   |           the~allurements of this life and will become altogether
 88 18   |       throughout the whole of his life.~‘Whosoever is ashamed of
 89 18   |          the~person’s whole inner life. He will come to understand
 90 19   |     everyday triviality in family life. The Lord said to~Moses, “
 91 19   |           which~derange the inner life of the sinner himself.~And
 92 19   |       time, or even for his whole life. How many~such tempters
 93 19   |        people out of their former life~and make them righteous
 94 20   |    general do not concern a man’s life among~people, but only the
 95 21   |          leading a Churchcentered~life, lament first of all the
 96 21   |           O Lord and Master of~my life...’, idleness (sloth) is
 97 21   |          and have wasted my~whole life in laziness.’xliii Aren’
 98 21   |           vices, and in spiritual life even less should you submit
 99 21   |           move ahead~in spiritual life. This is the virtue of patience,
100 21   |         who could not put up with life in his monastery and had
101 21   |        the ordinary conditions of life, they would turn away~from
102 22   |      customs of family and social life were subject to it; an example
103 22   |        contemporary conditions of~life, which are so far removed
104 22   |           the Old~Believer way of life or, to be more precise,
105 22   |   strictly Church-centered way of life).xlvii But~it is not just
106 B    |       apathetic. Let their~former life be taken into account, and
107 D    |           most important thing in life, i.e. preparation for eternity