Book: Pelagia and the black monk

Girlish curiosity is combustible material.

Heartbreaker - it only sounds beautiful, but there is no worse crime in the world ...

Faith is a gift of God, not everyone is given, but very smart people get it ten times more difficult.

It was then that she felt sorry for everyone: New Ararat, both men and women. But there are still more men than women, because the latter can still somehow manage without the former, but men, if left to their own devices, will definitely disappear. Either they go berserk and begin to behave outrageously, or they fall into an attack of lifeless dryness. It is not yet known which is worse.

How many such fleeting meetings happen in life. ... What could come true, but never come true, will touch you with a rustling wing on the cheek, dope you and fly further. And every day of life, a myriad of missed opportunities, failed turns of fate. There is nothing to sigh because of this, one must appreciate the path that you are walking.

Each had an impressive rubber club hanging on his belt - the most humane, in all respects excellent invention of the New World: if you hit some brawler on the head with such a contraption, it won’t blow your brains out, but it will lead you to thoughtfulness.

There is no scarier place than the one where goodness used to be, and then leaked out - be it an abandoned church, or a desecrated cemetery, and even more so a saving monastery.

It is more difficult for a well-fed man to climb Bonapartes than for a hungry one, for a full stomach does not favor briskness, but philosophizing and peaceful slumber.

Each of us has its own norm. And it is the duty of the individual to himself - to rise above this norm. <...> Man those valuable, so interesting, ... if you will, and so great that it can change for the better. Always. At any age, after any failure, any moral decline. In our very psyche has a mechanism of self-improvement. If this mechanism is not used, it rusts, and then the person becomes degraded, falls below its standards.

- What do you think the military does not need?
- Why not, need. When the adversary attacked and required to defend the Fatherland. But nothing they can not be trusted! No civil and the more spiritual things! And we in fact in Russia the military why not just charge!

The whole company of monks pours the local well water into bottles, closes the lids, paste labels "Novo-Ararat Episcopal moisture, blessed vysokoprepodobny O. Vitali," after this H2O wholesale way to cross to the mainland in St. Petersburg and especially in pious Moscow. In Ararat, for the convenience of the pilgrims built a wonderful miracle, marvel, called "Machines with Holy water." There is a wooden pavilion, and in this ingenious machine, the invention of local Kulibin. Lowers the person into the slot of the coin, the coin falls on the valve, zaslonka open, and poured into a mug of Holy water. There are more expensive, for a dime: there polivaetsya more raspberry syrup, some special "triple blessings".

To bring the man to the subject, which it is, and then to listen properly. And that's all, but how many men's hearts is won by using this simple methods! How many people who are ugly and bespridannitsa find such suitors, that everything only wonder - as they are only allowed such things did not deserve happiness. And so the basement: learn to listen.

The worst of calamities - even not to kill a living soul, and the soul of the dead to life to resurrect again and then, finally, to destroy.

A real, gigantic genius without necrosis of certain areas of the soul to Mature before the end can not.