repentance [Theme] Page 3

The feeling of repentance and guilt is the feeling that distinguishes man from animal, and a moral person from immoral.

I say all the time: we all are travelers to the heavenly Jerusalem, let us go the way to the end you could say I'm a true believer. We have a lot of temptations, things that deflect from the path of truth, and we give in. And then come, repent, and sin again. What to do... <...> And we don't know what the road to God is. Sometimes through tears, pain and blood, and sometimes through the fun or some kind of inner opening. So if someone in the film will only see the entertainment - well, what can you do. But we tried to make it fair. We still all exist in the space of Chekhov. Drink tea, meanwhile, beating heart, broken destiny.

Late at night, when the building of the Ministry was the candles, Gorchakov liked to stay in office, over a bottle of wine "Hermitage" loved to chat with Tyutchev and Jomini.
- Europe considers us Asians. But we belong in Europe to the same extent as Asia. All his huge body of Russia has swept across the Asian expanse, exposing bare heels on the Aleutian Islands, but the head of our homeland eternally rested in Europe... Russia is Now publicly want to separate from the great European concert. In ancient times, the Pope excommunicated the German Caesar, Henry the Fourth, and he arrived at Canossa, he dusted his head with ashes, repentance tore his clothes, week, stood on his feet under a rain and sun, with tears begging daddy not to reject him. But if Europe hopes that Russia, too, will go to Canossa to repent, then she is mistaken... not!

Not sin - not repent.

As every sickness there is healing, and every sin is repentance.

- How do you feel about repentance?
- This is very serious. Any sinner should be given a chance to redeem yourself. But I know that many people confess to sin with refreshed forces. By the way, about the hell people are imagining all sorts of terrible tales. But actually even scarier. Hell is the place where the person reveals with all clarity the futility of his sinful life. But this person is deprived of the right to repentance. He is experiencing eternal torment.

Repentance can save the soul, but destroys the reputation.

An example of work in mind, which has made the worker to the height of Christian perfection by taking in the depth of humility, we see the heroism of blessed Isidore of Alexandria. He was one of the dignitaries in Alexandria. Designed by the mercies of God towards monastic life, Isidore entered into the monastic dormitory, the former not far from Alexandria, and gave himself in unconditional obedience to the hegumen of the monastery, the husband, full of the Holy spirit. The Abbot, seeing that the height of Sana'a was formed in Isidore temper haughty and hard, determined to act against mental illness by the laying on of obedience difficult not only for body, but for a failing heart. Isidor, entering into the dormitory, told the Abbot that he entrusts himself to him as iron is given into the hands of Kovacs. The Abbot ordered him to stand and always stand at the gate of the monastery so that he each inbound and outbound worshipped at his feet and said, "Pray for me, I'm possessed by the devil." Isidore has rendered obedience to the Abbot as if an angel of God. After spending seven years in the foreseeing his obedience, and his death from Divine revelation, Isidor died happily.

Who in the hope of repentance allows himself to sin arbitrarily and deliberately, he does in relation to God evil.

... Whoever confesses their sins, they depart from that, because the sins are based and fixed on the pride of fallen nature, does not endure reproof and shame.

The novel is repentance the person innocent.