Chapter

 1 Intro|        ask questions in a certain way, and so~forth, priests should
 2 1    |            incidentally,” “by the way,” if you tear your soul
 3 2    |        path of perdition into the way of salvation. In theory
 4 3    |          a fatherly and~brotherly way, with even a few out of
 5 4    |           peasant is~bound in his way of life by a multitude of
 6 4    |          morals and the Christian way of life, which~has made
 7 4    |      appointed. Either do it this way, or else persuade them to
 8 5    |           the Bible twice in this way, then subsequently you will
 9 6    |           speak to one person one~way and to another person, differently.
10 6    |           soul has itself found a way out of its gloomy dungeon
11 7    |         and so they do not in any way constitute a sin. One should
12 7    |      crudest feelings in the same way: pinch your hand until it~
13 7    |           feeling it in just this way. Thus, if he is~not convinced
14 9    |      their chastity. In a similar way the~conscience is lulled
15 10   |         contemporary society. The way was prepared for this by
16 12   |           alas, has even made its way into textbooks of moral
17 12   |         St. Matthew). This is the way in which thoughtless people
18 12   |       vainglory which force their way into your heart,~reproach
19 13   |           it. In exactly the same way, one can only give up smoking
20 13   |         people are forgetting the way to God’s Church and their~
21 13   | fashionable, this does not in any way lessen its guilt.~The field
22 14   |         soul.~In exactly the same way, if the Lord expressed Himself
23 15   |           despondency in the same way we have treated the other~
24 15   |         female relative who gives way too much to her own feelings,
25 15   |        have cast off. In the~same way, a Christian whose prayers
26 16   |      against~one’s adversary in a way corresponding to this passion.
27 17   |           of poverty. In the same way, if a trader or land-owner
28 18   |         justify themselves in any way, but seem to be convinced
29 19   |           prayer if he forgot the way to God’s church years ago,
30 19   |          doing something your own~way. It was through this disobedience
31 20   |      neglecting~your soul in this way, haven’t you also consciously
32 20   |      course, be influenced either~way by the number of sinners
33 21   |   Observing the fasts is the best way, firstly, of acquiring the
34 21   |          them artificially in~any way. A person who does this
35 21   |         highly, but we must in no way deem ourselves superior
36 21   |         for these are well on the way to spiritual delusion (prelest)~
37 22   |           extent the Old~Believer way of life or, to be more precise,
38 22   |          strictly Church-centered way of life).xlvii But~it is
39 D    |         or despair have you given way to~impudent grumbling at
40 D    |           in a direct or indirect way? — by fraud, diverse~cunning,