Character: Daniel Stein

I'm very afraid of spiritual life. This is the spiritual life, according to my observation, more often the person carries itself. As an exercise. As I have met small people with very big spiritual life, and almost always been that the spiritual life is to dig himself into a very shallow depth...

... it's always very difficult to decide what to say and what to keep to oneself. In my younger years, I believed that all men should know everything and I, as a pastor, is obliged to share all knowledge. Over the years realized that it is not. Man can know only what it can accommodate. (...) You know, afraid to disturb the stability in man. When a person is accustomed to thinking a certain way, then even a small deviation from the usual thinking may be painful. Not everyone is ready to accept new ideas, to clarify their knowledge and to Supplement. Generally to change.

... except the Bible and the New Testament there is another book that we also need to be able to read, is the book of life of the individual....

... only internally free person and he can laugh at himself and to give others to laugh at themselves.

Women in love is almost always the victim. Women suffer more from love. Maybe they are getting more.

What do call miracles? What, no one saw that never happened? What goes beyond our experience? That contradicts common sense? Which is unlikely, or happens so rarely that such an event no witnesses? (...)
From my experience, I can say: a miracle is known by the mind that creates art God. Does this mean that miracles do not happen with non-believers? It does not. Because the mind of an unbeliever is so arranged that it will be to explain the miracle by natural causes, theory of probability, or the exception to the rule. For the believer a miracle is the intervention of God in the natural course of events, and the mind of a believer is happy and filled with gratitude when a miracle occurs.

I steeped in gloom and bitterness. I usually do not know what the mood is too great a luxury for a busy man to have a mood.

We know that the question of Pilate "What is truth?" - only rhetoric. And the question "What is faith?" - not rhetoric, but a vital necessity. Too many people in the world who believe in rules, candles, sculptures and other things, I believe in interesting people and strange ideas. Maybe look here content is as foolish as to seek the truth? But I want the faith that each person has a personal mystery has been cleared from the chaff and litter. To the whole and undivided grains. It is one thing to believe and another thing to know but more importantly know what you believe.

I want to tell you that war is like a prison and serious illness, - a great misfortune. People suffer and lose their loved ones, deprived of hands, feet and stuff, and, most importantly, no one from the war and do better. Don't let anybody tell you that war hardens men through the war people change in a good way. Most so - very nice people and the war are not made worse, but actually - from war and prison, people lose their human face.

And the main misunderstanding people do not understand God, what He is trying to instill through all the known texts, through miracles, of revelation, through natural disasters, which from time to time fall upon mankind.
Don't know why. Maybe because modern man is more important not to "understand" and "win", "to conquer," "to consume".

Honestly, you hit my weak spot all my life, and I think about it: why the world is full of misunderstanding? On all levels! The elderly do not understand the youth, and the youth - the elderly, do not understand each other, the neighbors, teachers and students, bosses and subordinates, States do not understand their people and the peoples of their rulers. There is no understanding between the classes Karl Marx came up with is that some classes should hate others. All this, even in cases when people speak the same language! And when different? As one people to understand another? And that hate each other because of misunderstanding!

You know, you're right - it's hard to live in the family without understanding. But the fact is that,(...) because this process is mutual, they don't understand you, and you don't understand them. Generally in our world, understanding the big problem: by and large, no one understands. I would even say that people very often do not understand myself...