Chapter

  1 Intro|    struggle,~and, with the help of God’s grace, gradual victory,
  2 1    |        that these people chosen by God have the right and obligation~
  3 1    |           between themselves~ ~and God, both in prayer and in the
  4 1    |           of the soul, the will of God, the truth of God — this
  5 1    |          will of God, the truth of God — this is what was~always
  6 1    |           accepted as the voice of God, and people consider going
  7 1    |           know them not so much as God’s~ministers, but rather
  8 1    |           Think on this, priest of God, and take pity on man and
  9 1    |          never so fine,~so dear to God, as when he kills his pride
 10 1    |           salvation, this enemy of God, pride, has been destroyed,
 11 1    |          you, spiritual father, if God tells you things that can
 12 1    |           of his former sins. But “God helps~the laborers and not
 13 1    |           you, given~himself up to God. You are hardly likely to
 14 1    |         what an exceptional honour God has granted you,~what a
 15 2    |     teaching, he looks upon you as God’s~herald, as a prophet,
 16 2    |          listening to the words of God. And this is~almost how
 17 2    |            special revelation from God which by-passes his own~
 18 2    |            sense that the grace of God, invoked in humble prayer
 19 2    |            only remembering (about~God and one’s conscience).”~
 20 2    |       intentions, but the grace of God,~enlightening their souls
 21 2    |      intermediary between them and~God. If I could instill such
 22 2    |         preachers of~conversion to God manage to make all the inhabitants
 23 2    |       imparted to them the word of God and also their own soul (
 24 2    |            and love in the name of God and teach them~to struggle
 25 2    |          moral feat in the eyes of God and~the Church than all
 26 2    |           will and prayer. If only God~would let you taste that
 27 3    |         even I am sad for you, and God loves us so many times more
 28 3    |            the local town, and~may God grant that you manage to
 29 3    |             with the assistance of God’s grace, everything that
 30 3    |          broken and contrite heart God will~not despise” (Ps. 50:
 31 3    |    hard-heartedness, the nearer is God’s grace to~you and the more
 32 3    |            crucify yourself~before God together with all the people
 33 3    |         begin tempting you against God’s work. If at first you
 34 3    |            many, and then offer to God sincere repentance~that
 35 3    |            grace-given strength of God, and thus you yourself will
 36 4    |          sincere repentance before God and~to a sincere confession
 37 4    |          the responsibility before God of admitting them to Communion,
 38 4    |        most important prayer “Lord God, the salvation of Thy servants...,”
 39 4    |           following: “The Lord and God Jesus Christ." 10~This prayer
 40 4(10)|         confession, in~which it is God Who forgives, and not the
 41 5    |      spirit and started praying to God to lighten the cross~which
 42 5    |         yourself.”~“Do you suppose God will forgive me’, said the
 43 6    |  misfortune, prayers unanswered by God (this happens~especially
 44 6    |          and whence enmity against~God begins. Many people have
 45 6    |           which took you~away from God. Repent before Him, but
 46 6    |          receive the~desire to ask God for the remission of your
 47 6    |          and great, if there is no God? For then, you see, there
 48 6    |           evil; all those who deny God have been compelled to~admit
 49 6    |         thoughtful person can deny God and accept these conclusions
 50 6    |         sympathy to the enemies of God, and so tore~him away from
 51 6    |          and so tore~him away from God.~If the unbeliever to whom
 52 6    |         unbelief and opposition to God.~Unbelievers are converted
 53 6    |           against the existence of God or~the immortality of the
 54 6    |           the light,~and soared to God in prayer. Of course, it
 55 6    |      carefully reading the word of~God, listening attentively to
 56 6    |       blessed you are, minister of God, if you have found the key
 57 6    |         for him to begin living in God: “Behold, the half of my~
 58 6    |              Either deny belief in God Himself, the Lord Jesus
 59 7    |   Communion, at times I believe in God, but at times it is as if
 60 7    |            Christ or the Mother~of God. And of course, the more
 61 7    |            fruit of hatred towards God and the saints, but~simply
 62 7    |         Holy Communion, or even in God Himself, that~comes from
 63 7    |   qualities of our feeling towards God or the Mother of God and~
 64 7    |       towards God or the Mother of God and~the other saints, then
 65 8    |          have disclosed to me that God has helped them~obtain from
 66 8    |            Let the sinner consider~God’s mercy towards him, in
 67 8    |        fall with repentance before God. If he is a religious person,
 68 8    |          seen as a punishment from God for former sins, or other
 69 8    |           explaining the truths of God (such as recalling the saving~
 70 8    |    prostrations to the ground that God will not let us descend
 71 8    |       embittered2~feelings against God or people and admit that
 72 8    |     yourself slip — that it is not God Who has offended you, but
 73 8    |         you yourself have~offended God, sinned against Him and
 74 9    |         removal of their life from God’s temple, but so~lightheartedly
 75 9    |          towards others, including God, together with grief and~
 76 9    |     himself a guilty sinner before God and~men accepted it and
 77 9    |            not be~justified before God by offenses that others
 78 9    |           a sin as striking one of God’s bishops in the face. Readiness
 79 9    |       exalts people in the eyes of God,~but also attracts the hearts
 80 9    |          books and such gifts from God, of which~others are deprived? “
 81 9    |           was granted visions from God, wept profusely, then how
 82 9    |          and joy over the mercy of God.~
 83 10   |    imagining oneself to be near to God and to the realm of the
 84 10   |        intentional directions from God or their Guardian Angel,
 85 10   |            imagining that they are God’s elect, and not infrequently
 86 10   |       Kisileva to be the Mother of God. To replace one Christ,5
 87 10   |           a monk and claimed to~be God. Podolia and Bessarabia
 88 10   |         Deification of the name of God — the belief that the Divine~
 89 10   |       Christs,” and their leader, “God.”~9 Svyatogorets, or “Hagiorite”
 90 11   |          have value in the eyes of God, but the constant state
 91 11   |            is impossible to please God. Pleasing God consists~precisely
 92 11   |            to please God. Pleasing God consists~precisely in these
 93 11   |         assistance of the grace of God, given in answer to the
 94 11   |   understand that they sin against God and their salvation~not
 95 11   |            cross~comes to you from God, and if you cannot go away
 96 11   |    malicious neighbour, praying to~God and asking the advice of
 97 11   |            separated from oneself. God will guide you in this,~
 98 11   |           to blame for this before~God, provided only that anger
 99 11   |            after. Thus they forget~God and their conscience but,
100 11   |          the most repulsive sin in God’s eyes: “He who hates his
101 11   |          as not to be~liars before God. Thus the monk is made to
102 12   |             However, this~enemy of God and our salvation will not
103 12   |        pride which is repugnant to God.~People call these feelings “
104 12   |         here~understood to be from God, and that in the future
105 12   |           although~it is cursed by God — just as those deeply sunk
106 12   |            man are not~pleasing to God (Mt., Ch. 6); and also of
107 12   |         Church, in accordance with God’s commandments~and to which
108 12   |    superiors and by the gifts that God has given you. Do~a useful
109 12   |         and humble yourself before God, before the fate of Napoleon
110 12   |    Apostles and others who pleased~God. It is useful to mention
111 13   |       souls who remain faithful to God and the Church, have~humbled
112 13   |           accord are going towards God, are usually free from malice,~
113 13   | adolescents, although~repugnant to God, is not punished by anything
114 13   |         confession, console him as God helps you to — console him,~
115 13   |          become more~frequent, and God’s punishment will not be
116 13   |           How thankful they are to God that they overcame this~
117 13   |          day and during this night God will unfailingly protect
118 13   |         even called in the Word of God “a liar and the father~of
119 13   |          feeling of enmity against God and against religion. Here
120 13   |          that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement” (
121 13   |       forbidden, condemned by both God and his parents and elders,~
122 13   |           himself in opposition to God, the Church, the~priest,
123 13   |          are forgetting the way to God’s Church and their~spiritual
124 13   |            that is printed against God, the Church and God’s commandments,~
125 13   |        against God, the Church and God’s commandments,~and angrily
126 14   |       always be freed from it with God’s help.~Drunkenness is one
127 14   |          in his soul and is asking God and men to teach him how
128 14   |           raise themselves up with God’s help from their fall,
129 15   |   constantly raising one’s soul to God through prayer, reading
130 15   |         spiritual father can thank God on his~account and say, “
131 15   |            is nourished by hope in God’s merciful providence concerning
132 15   |           majority do not think of God at all. But even among religious
133 15   |     combined with the thought that God has abandoned them. Together
134 15   |     overcome by grief. I~know that God does everything for our
135 15   |  especially sinful when it rejects God’s consolation. When a~capricious
136 15   |            if not directly against God, then at least opposed~to
137 15   |           then at least opposed~to God, approaching grumbling.
138 15   |            fear this state and ask God’s forgiveness and~help.
139 15   |           continuing in union with God, can fill up that emptiness
140 17   |          himself to the service of God willingly, and not from~
141 17   |           gods apart from the true God. Such are lovers of money —
142 17   |    frequently draw a man away from God, yet they burst into the
143 17   |          himself and was following God’s commandments in everything,
144 17   |        path of total dedication to God and the Church~(“and come
145 18   |           confess to Thee, the One God worshipped in~Trinity...”;
146 18   |             although not often, to God’s church and even to confession.
147 18   |           such people? The fear of God? Sometimes (although, of
148 18   |        King of Israel, who angered God with his~evil designs and
149 18   |          to repent and the fear of God will not grow if they postpone
150 18   |        their~words as the words of God, and a Christian is never
151 18   |           a terrible sinner before God and his neighbors.~From
152 18   |          positively strive towards God~and virtue.~In situations
153 18   |        worthy of condemnation from God and people than~is a person
154 19   |          as being~a commandment of God (Mt. 15:4; Mk. 7:10), although
155 19   |        feeling of his guilt~before God, put questions to him about
156 19   |     accepted order of sins against God, against one’s neighbour
157 19   |         its direct~relationship to God. What sense is there in
158 19   |            if he forgot the way to God’s church years ago, and
159 19   |         there are many who pray to God and devour people.” If a
160 19   |          above, then let him thank God. However, it is still useful
161 19   |         sins against the Person of God and finally about sins which~
162 19   |        have sinned terribly before God, far worse than thieves
163 19   |          guilty of this — glory to God. However, are you not given
164 19   |       theft,~rejecting the fear of God, leaving their father’s
165 19   |        already sinned much against God, and I am glad to see that
166 20   |                   20. Sins Against God.~This is what the priest
167 20   |         neighbour and sins against God Himself, which he was previously
168 20   |          you had all but forgotten God, and with Him your soul
169 20   |        does~not lay it open before God, pray to Him and hold Him
170 20   |         you do not like praying to God, you live honourably and
171 20   |   permitted yourself to abuse both God~and faith in Him? Haven’
172 20   |      moments~you made a promise to God to correct your ways, and
173 20   |          done something to deserve~God’s anger, remember about
174 20   |    complete absence of the fear of God and of~contempt for God’
175 20   |            God and of~contempt for God’s being? Further, perhaps
176 20   |         plenty of room in Hell and God’s Judgement will not, of
177 20   |           those who say, ‘I revere God in my heart, and He does
178 20   |           and~through the grace of God, which is given to those
179 20   |        cannot possibly imagine how God hears our prayers. But if
180 21   |        mentally before~the face of God and offer repentance for
181 21   |         from your offences against~God and against other people,
182 21   |          which was given to you by God so that you could~make it
183 21   |        already~submitted itself to God is always dissatisfied with
184 21   |           obvious infringements of God’s commandments, but also
185 21   |        work to do for the glory of God:~either visiting the sick,
186 21   |             But do~Thou Thyself as God, O Savior, grant me these.”
187 21   |            labour~for the glory of God and the salvation of your
188 21   |         think I will be able,~with God’s help, to say what is necessary
189 21   |          our will, but are sent by God as a gift of grace, which
190 21   |            and demanding them from God, the priest~should remind
191 21   |            place themselves before God during~prayer. Furthermore,
192 21   |          do we look up mentally to God during prayer, but also
193 22   |            are so far removed from God’s commandments, the strictness
194 A    |       Prayer of Absolution:~O Lord God of the salvation of Thy
195 A    |       Absolution:~May our Lord and God Jesus Christ, through the
196 C    |           I confess to the Lord my God before thee, reverend father,
197 C    |         sin through ingratitude to God for His great and numberless
198 D    |     constantly have the thought of God in mind and the fear of
199 D    |            in mind and the fear of God in your heart?~Is your faith
200 D    |            heart?~Is your faith in God shaken by scepticism or
201 D    |         Orthodox Faith?~Do you ask God to strengthen your faith?~
202 D    |           faith?~Do you despair of God’s mercy?~Do you pray to
203 D    |            s mercy?~Do you pray to God every day, morning and night?
204 D    |        eternity and~your answer to God if you have given yourself
205 D    |            Second Commandment~Does God take first place with you?
206 D    |            place with you? Perhaps God does not take first place,
207 D    |            Are you distracted from God by a passion for television,
208 D    |            family you forget about God~and fail to please Him and
209 D    |           an idol and that it, not God, has first place with you.~
210 D    |        irreverent with the name of God or, what is worse, have
211 D    |      something holy~as a joke? Or, God forbid, in a fit of bitterness
212 D    |           to~impudent grumbling at God or even reviling Him?~Have
213 D    |       where there is no mention~of God?~Have you yourself arranged