Author of quotes: Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov

nowhere. But, after all, He spoke about other things. That's why all this is needed. But as already some such addition. From the generosity of the soul. After all, it is not necessary to walk in rags! You can dress well and be combed. But nobody really needs it. And what you really need is love, care, participation in your life, help, maybe advice. And maybe even for someone to do something. And something to share.

to you. We love a person, for example, but he does not go to church. We want him to walk too. It's clear. Well, how? Persuasion is useless - this is not a small child that you will swaddle and bring to communion. No, he does not walk, he rests like a bull. What to do with him? Just pray, pray for a long time, maybe a decade. Then the Lord - He Himself promised - will fulfill our prayer.

will you? But because a lame should not laugh at a humpback! Because we are all with a humpbacked soul and a lame faith!

Repentance is not ah, sorry.

When I was young, I thought life was suffering, and in old age I realized that God wanted us to be happy.
Due to the fact that the family is destroyed, our people are sullen and unhappy, because a person can be happy on earth only if he has a full-fledged family.
Whatever a person has achieved - career, fame, wealth - happiness is given only by family.
To live among the beloved and to serve these people is the highest happiness and bliss.

God, then no candle is needed, not money, but our heart is softened with meekness, humility, patience. That's what God wants. He needs peace of soul, peace with your neighbours.

Each person has different answers to the word of God. And the main reason for His rejection is that the person lives some of his life. And every life outside of God's word is the life of the godless, without God. Although many argue that God in his soul, but this is just vile slander against God, because they have a completely different God with a small letter, and not the Christian God. In the heart of a person usually lives is not God, but a false idea about Him, the God man himself invented and worships him. But a false God is a demon. Therefore, faith is when you believe in the soul, is called the faith of devils. Man invents it for himself in order to not feel guilty. And our conscience is crying next to angel, who calls out to our mind and heart: Wake up, Wake up, stop, what are you doing? He arouses the conscience, and the person evades. Why? Because selfish because he doesn't want a feat, because proud.

When we see kind and well-behaved children, involuntarily happy for their parents and a little envy them because our kids often are not.
One parishioner told me: "why is it that these children, and I have one of these? Why is she all go to the temple, and the priests the sons, and a daughter married to a priest, although she was raised one, and my husband was, but my children and in Church do not go, and not pious, and to me?"
Failed to educate. This is a very difficult thing, a huge feat. It is good to raise children - it is almost save your soul, not just because God needs godly people, and because this feat induces man to advance on all fronts and win battle after battle, it is a spiritual battle for the soul of the child. And education, of course, depends primarily on the piety of the parents.

The Lord gave man a family for what? In order for the family led him into the Kingdom of heaven. The family is the school of love.

A woman can say that she is able to live without men, but it is an illusion. She can't even be happy when she is the head of the family, because she has to carry two who. A woman can become a woman only with a man. And when there is no real man, she has the femininity of their leave. You can not be both a Princess and a workhorse.

The temple is not operational, and the orphan Park.

There is no such bad things in the world, which would be England for us would not accept.

And pokemon catch in your locker or in a public bath. The temple is a house of prayer. In the Church can neither play football nor to drink coffee or engage in extraneous conversations, no catching pokemon. This is a special place only for prayers and ordinances of the Church.

There are officials who go to Church every Sunday. But what does it mean to go to Church? In temples and sparrows fly, and mouse are, and even the cat I saw. To go to the temple to pray does not mean to be a Christian. This is only the beginning. Human need to learn. To teach the love of neighbor. Here is a fat, stooped, smelly, drunk man. How to love him? As yourself. Sometimes I disgust myself, but I'm not asking the Lord to me the iron is hot from the fifth floor fell on the head... Me love.
The long road of repentance and of human understanding that its role in this world service. It is necessary to teach. In The Church. And in the family, of course. Patriotism - this is the same feeling of love as love to dad, mom, younger sister.