Chapter

 1 1 |        number of about 500 people, just so that they can burst in
 2 1 |       confession for several years just because he could not conquer
 3 2 |           of St.~Tikhon which have just been cited. If we still
 4 2 |           all hut a minority do it just out of habit. Saying words
 5 2 |         them fiery exhortations is just the same as pouring water
 6 2 |       expect a different attitude; just begin — just work on yourself,~
 7 2 |   different attitude; just begin — just work on yourself,~as I have
 8 2 |            Lk.~15:32). You will do just as much good to him spiritually
 9 2 |           been given to you is not just “the~right to perform Church
10 3 |         more than you do yourself, just~as you wish your children
11 3 | confessions once or twice, or even~just the confession of one person,
12 3 |        confession for a whole day? Just listen to the sin and read
13 3 |            children turn out to he just a~formal witness of their
14 4 |    confession, but my parishioners just didn’t take any notice.”
15 4 |      spiritual father, how “It was just as~if batiushka had taken
16 5 |        attention and, I think, not just once; then start~reading
17 5 |            whole life. I will~give just one example. A monk who
18 6 |         and you began to hate them just as a mischievous schoolboy
19 6 |            it comes to an end here just as~the soul has been brought
20 6 |           of denying Him, they are just boasting and~wanting to
21 6 |           possessed by demons were just epileptics: did the Lord
22 7 |        child is getting ill, or is~just about to get ill, or something
23 7 |      managed to stop feeling it in just this way. Thus, if he is~
24 10|          spiritual writers we have just mentioned. The Apostle Paul
25 11|           as actual deeds would be just as unsuccessful as cutting
26 12|     although~it is cursed by God — just as those deeply sunk in
27 12|          all, and this~applies not just to spiritual fathers but
28 12|           are not people, they are~just beautiful dogs, and they
29 13|    speaking with sympathy, and not just in order to~scold or humiliate
30 13|         foul sin today,~but I will just allow myself to bring it
31 13|          like last time?”~Or “I’ll just let myself read that dirty
32 13|   impression that a prayer book is just as indispensable in every
33 13|          the young sinners we have just been describing are distressed~
34 14|         that it is more useful not just~to be satisfied with a general
35 15|         and encouragement. We have~just mentioned depression. This
36 15|       state of mind, but it is not just a question of these: let
37 15|        secretly conceived passion, just as Saul was driven to a~
38 15|        more fervently than~before, just because of his resolve to
39 16|          of which he is guilty are just as shameful whether he is~
40 17|    altogether calm himself, but~is just trying to deceive himself.
41 18|       tomorrow I shall start doing just the same things? I don’t~
42 19|         intelligent person and not just a stupid sheep, another
43 20|           in defense of his faith, just~as you probably didn’t speak
44 20|          be a human being, and not just a plaything of sinful~passions,
45 20|          unproven? Is it not being just as superstitious, blindly~
46 21|           this subject is~endless, just as the variety of human
47 22|          confession are liable not~just to strict penances, but
48 22|          life).xlvii But~it is not just a question of causing distress;