Author of quotes: Alexei Ilyich Osipov

Many remember the gospel parable about a man who has been unusually rich harvest. He also apparently lived well, but this time, due to the specific abundance of the harvest, began to think, what to do with such wealth. And decided - no more, no less - how to break down his old barns, build new and then heal as it should. Eat, say, drink, and be merry, my soul, only you fully [1]!
Very eloquently said! Really what only dreams of people throughout history? About how to achieve such scientific and technical progress, when you can do nothing, only eat, drink and be merry. Happiness then, seems to be achieved. But the end of the eternal dreams of the wealthy?
With him is that what he (and we?) did not think and did not want to think. God says the court about him: "Mad! This night thy soul shall be required of thee" (LK. 12. 19). Not just to say: you will die (and that would be scary), but will take (in Church Slavonic stronger estatut) thy soul. And it's not even a short period of time (this night), which separated the thoughts and dreams of a rich man from the moment when his soul stagnoli from the body. This moment each of us can be measured in different period of time: hours, days, months, years. But in any case they are all MiG. Because each of us is well aware that his previous life has passed like a dream - no matter how old is he now - 20, 50, 70... Time is a strange, strange thing it seems, and there it is - and at the same time not. No wonder even the ancient Greek sages said: the past does not exist, since it is already gone, this is not, as it is the elusive moment of the future because it has not yet come. What is there that will come to us for a moment of earthly life?
Alas, the verdict of the gospel rich man: istiot thy soul, - is pronounced upon all those who whole meaning of his life, sees only to eat, drink and be merry.

Not God will punish us for our sins, and our ongoing passion that we live here, and try to forget them, the passion they open up in full force. That means a drop from a particular ordeal: the passion is stronger in man than the love of God, which is revealed after death. And the man falls, is passionate about passion. Passion is suffering. How long this suffering will continue - we don't know. But the more a person was addicted to the passion is, the stronger and longer it will suffer there. And this is the "worm unceasing vigilance and continual fire". This is hell. But, according to Isaac, it gives the human soul an opportunity in the end to get rid of a the passion to join God. There's another thought. John Chrysostom writes: "For God and the benefits that hell was created." Nowhere in Scripture we find words about the fact that God created hell, rather, Chrysostom speaks of this figuratively, not as a place but as a state of mind, exposed to an ongoing passion. Why God is good? - It is impossible hellish creature to be with God. It will be a hell in a hellish degree. There is disease when a person can't stand light or sound. Get him the music he'll be torn to pieces. Therefore, hell beings it is better to be outside of God, yet these properties persist in it. Therefore, hell is not infinite, and eternal, where everyone suffers still persisting passions. So Christ sends the apostles to teach and baptize, that is why the apostles risked my life, almost all ended in martyrdom, preaching Christianity, teaching: go to the feast right way, avoid the false, for time is given not so much.

It is necessary to tell about it (A. S. Khomyakov) amazing vision of the Church. "The Church is not a multitude of individuals in their personal separateness, but the unity of God's grace dwelling in the multitude of rational creatures who submit to grace", wrote hamsters. He strongly rejected the definition and the understanding of the Church, which we have borrowed from the Western theological literature. The Church is not society and not the structure. Society and structure is a form, garment, guise, but not the Church. Khomyakov speaks of the Church primarily as the unity of the spirit. The Church is a unity of the grace of God, that is the Holy spirit who lives in those who obey that spirit. It is in the unity of the spirit in the Church, not in structure, organization, discipline, and even the canons and the formal unity of the faith. You can be in the highest degree United in doctrine, but remain without the spirit of God.

The highest of the virtues - it is the gift of reasoning, that is, to consider in all conscience and reason. These two lines together when they intersect, provide the required point of view that we need.

The first thing I want to say - that when I was four or five years, I pestered all the time to his mother: where am I? And when I asked her tired, she once told me: I bought you on the market. I calmed down.

Note that each word carries, has in itself a certain load. Spiritual load. Every word of it. Did you notice that, for example, why black word not to swear. They say that it's a sin. Why not to say. Noticed that is often connected with the word a certain spiritual state. The spiritual element of a specific part. And it is an indisputable fact. .. is called grey wolf. Still some, you know, figurative expressions about someone. Noticed? This experience just goes to show the experience of life. That is, the word causes a reaction in the human soul.

Time is an illusion, a deception of eternity.

A drunken pop will do more harm to Christianity than 10 atheistic institutions together.