51. Watch out for signing contracts that bind them, particularly if there are any advantages and lures on the fishing line. This could contain you in a corporation that can restrict and drive your freedom and free will, and in impact you’ll develop into a god-fighter and an ungodly individual, than which there’s nothing extra harmful and damaging.
52. For necessary and accountable issues, ask for a written order.
53. Don’t have illusions and don’t get pleasure from mirages. A lot of those that appear to you to be well-off, for those who look extra fastidiously into their lives, you will discover that they’ve entangled themselves in such nets that they are going to by no means be capable to get out of them, and can perish as they’re right here. on earth in addition to in eternity. For instance, ask your self the query: “Why do many who appear to be affluent smoke, drink and serve the vices that enslave them?”
54. Be completely humble in entrance of everybody. Being low to the bottom, there’s nowhere to push you to smash your head. When you don’t stick your nostril out, you gained’t be hit by a lethal bullet. Earthly life is a forest.
55. It’s higher to not speak in regards to the issues that excite the passions.
56. The human soul is an impregnable fortress. God has entrusted the keys to it to us. We’re those who, by our obedience to demons, are handing these keys into the palms of the depraved to destroy us.
57. These whom you decide and accuse, you’re taking upon your self their guilt.
58. Probably the most worthwhile funding, essentially the most worthwhile deposit is advantage and charity.
59. God favors nothing a lot because the removing of pleasure clinging to the soul. Nevertheless your relations and circumstances could change in direction of you, your soul should stay in the identical unaltered easy and virtuous disposition and situation.
60. It’s higher to sit down at an empty desk than at a desk with dangerous and toxic dishes.
61. Attempt with all of your would possibly for advantage, however hope extra within the Lord than in your good works.
62. What you undergo for less than will get a worth for those who don’t pollute it along with your powerless phrases and self-promotion.
63. Imps are afraid of order.
64. Typically the exterior unity of individuals results in deep inner disunity.
65. If you don’t eliminate your free conduct with individuals, you’ll fail in all of your affairs and you’ll by no means be affluent.
66. The carnal man will betray you even for those who warn him.
67. When the satan can not fail you in issues of religion, he incites you to condemnation, fornication, anger, to lure you in ethical sin.
68. Exhausting and mild! Meek and agency!
69. Authority is related with dignified Christian humility. The suitable view is to do every thing in your energy within the path of your aspirations. Solely then pray, anticipating every thing from God’s mercy.
70. The query isn’t whether or not you’re proper or unsuitable. All of it comes right down to alternative. When you would not have the chance now, postpone the battle or your intention till you collect energy and means, preserve silent and watch for the time.
71. Belief nobody and don’t reveal your coronary heart.
72. For nothing on the earth don’t slander, slander and decide even in relation to your best enemies. Don’t ally your self with the highly effective and the wealthy. Don’t testify, particularly in divorce circumstances.
73. You need to at all times be a person! However is it manly to guage, debauchery and chatter hot-not-boiling?!
74. For each good factor the satan has made a false duplicate, which you will need to be capable to acknowledge.
75. Don’t be like a horse that any man and rabies can eat. Be severe, agency and regular.
76. No try and cease the decaying course of within the Church. That is pointless and harmful at present! Use God’s commandments and keep away from speaking about faith and politics. The ability is in silence, prayer, self-absorption in a single’s personal coronary heart cell. Be invisible like a beetle below a leaf. Guard your conscience, on no account flaunting it or discrediting it in entrance of anybody. Don’t be direct and particular, or probe the subtleties in entrance of individuals. If you don’t observe this, then they are going to drive you to alter your religion.
77. Bear in mind your sins and you can be satisfied that you’re at all times worthy of punishment.
78. Anger doesn’t come up from illness, however from pleasure. So as to not give in to irritability and anger, you shouldn’t rush. Be very cautious about your self to not offend anybody with the looks of contempt.
79. When you settle for individuals within the identify of God, then everybody can be sort to you.
80. Work arduous in your affairs and you’ll drive away laziness, despondency and tedium, and for those who pray patiently, you can be delivered from many evils.
81. When a dismal temper assaults you, don’t forget to rebuke your self, remembering how responsible you’re earlier than God. Notice that you’re not worthy of something higher and you’ll instantly get reduction from darkish, disagreeable ideas. When you really feel stressed, repeat usually: “Search peace.”
82. Self-justification is a superb sin. You retain sinning, then preserve repenting. Thus, in the long run, if demise finds you in regret, you can be saved. Do you remorse it? Then with alms straighten your life and cleanse your self out of your sins.
83. If you end up at enmity in opposition to somebody, you offend God, and please the satan – an enemy.
84. There aren’t any trifles on the earth. Every little thing on the earth has its worth and penalties.
85. Failure to observe the recommendation of the smart results in misfortune.
86. True repentance doesn’t require days and years, however usually, as with the thief on the cross, solely a second.
87. Nice good and evil at all times start from the small and the imperceptible.
88. Don’t forget that the robber was a robber for thirty years and, having repented, entered Paradise, and Judas was with the Lord all his life, however in the long run he betrayed Him.
89. In the event that they reward you, don’t say something, chill out your head and eyes and be silent, or else point out the rationale – God’s reward.
90. Do good just for God and don’t pay any consideration to the choir’s ingratitude. Count on reward solely from the Lord. When you count on any thanks right here on earth, you labor in useless and undergo privations in useless. Man is by nature ungrateful.
91. Our consideration should be directed to our interior life in order that we don’t discover what is going on round us. Then we is not going to decide. Allow us to not be too bitter in regards to the injustices right here and deal with them indifferently. Justice doesn’t stay on our land. We await a brand new heaven and a brand new earth the place righteousness dwells. Don’t be bitter if individuals don’t worth you and are unfair. You’re employed for God, not for individuals. Present mercy to others, however be strict with your self. You’ll not be accountable for others, so watch not them, however your self, as a result of you’ll solely be accountable for your self.
92. It’s higher to anticipate and be silent than to talk after which remorse.
93. He who thinks he has advantage loses it.
94. Don’t pray or do alms so that you’re seen! That is Christ’s command.
95. He’s smart who sees the great in everybody and the unhealthy in himself; the silly sees the unhealthy in everybody, and considers himself essentially the most worthy.
96. Whenever you get up, say: “Glory be to You, God!” and don’t bear in mind your goals.
97. Whenever you work, say to your self: “Lord, have mercy!”.
98. Don’t converse in church, such a behavior brings sorrows.
99. Whenever you pray diligently, beware – temptations will observe.
100. After confession and communion, ask God to guard you from returning to your former sins. If you wish to do one thing that you just shouldn’t, keep in mind that you’ll have to confess it and God could not forgive you, exactly since you persist, understanding that it isn’t good, however you do it.
101. If you don’t imagine in indicators and goals and the like, they won’t come true.
102. With individuals, particularly those that aren’t of your intercourse, you shouldn’t deal with freely, in order to not function a temptation.
103. The beam you have got in your eyes once you decide others is pleasure – you will need to to begin with take away it from your self. The proud is healed by God with interior sorrows, and the standard endures every thing that comes from individuals, telling himself that he’s worthy of it. Be respectful to everybody, however not flattering. Bow and go rapidly. Look to the earth, for there you’ll go. Humility requires yielding to others by submitting to the youthful and contemplating your self the worst. He who provides in positive factors extra. Humble your self and all of your works will begin. If somebody is offended with you, ask them why. If somebody is offended with you, please them. Hold quiet in entrance of everybody and everybody will love you.
104. If you end up offended with somebody, it’s higher to joke. Don’t be impolite. When requested for recommendation, it’s finest to say, “I don’t know what to say.” Chuckle a little bit. Laughter casts out the worry of God.
105. If blasphemous ideas about God and holy issues assail you, otherwise you condemn, reproach your self in pleasure, and pay no consideration to your ideas.
106. To be able to preserve the worry of God in your self, fulfill His instructions, asking Him that will help you on this.
107. You have to not be a individuals pleaser. You higher preserve quiet. Silence is superior to people-pleasing.
108. Don’t inform the place what’s being executed and don’t cross on different individuals’s affairs.
109. God loves works.
110. Whereas we’re on earth, we can’t be with out sorrows anyplace.
111. At all times adhere to the rule: the place you don’t foresee success, don’t start to behave there.
112. Life for God – that is our earthly vocation.
113. On earth we’d like no attachments, neither to wealth, nor to fame, nor to fame, nor to pleasures. Every little thing is short-term and after the slender and darkish grave, they won’t observe us.
114. To ensure that your prayers to be heard, first pray on your enemies, in order that God will assist you to, even though you have got change into His enemy along with your sins. Secondly, stretch out your palms to these in want and in line with your energy, fulfill them, as a result of solely on this method it is possible for you to to succeed in the peak of the merciful God. Third, don’t neglect to ask God to strengthen your religion. After that, it’s essential to be humble, in order that God’s blessings can circulation to this lowland.
115. In your angle in direction of individuals and particularly in direction of your pals, at all times bear in mind a thought that’s contained within the oldest e book of the Bible, devoted to the long-suffering Job: “He who condemns his pal to a spoil, his youngsters’s eyes run out.” In reference to this thought St. John Chrysostom famous that God isn’t offended by something as a lot as by the offense we inflict on our pals. And also you at all times be sort to your pals, even when, as individuals, they’ve sinned in opposition to you in a roundabout way.
116. Your successes can be a lot higher, the clearer the picture of the virtues you attract your coronary heart.
117. Do you have got a contest developing or one other decisive and necessary second in your life? Earlier than that, it’s vital to pay attention – that is executed with silence and prayer. Go into seclusion and on this method instill in your soul a gracious energy that alone can bestow lasting victory.
118. Nearly at all times, after we are in good bodily and psychological situation, breakdowns occur. It’s as a result of we neglect ourselves. We drop the place of warning and restraint. Successes are most simply misplaced the second they’re gained. The traditional ascetics taught us to stick to a reasonable however fixed food regimen and conduct. Be very cautious precisely once you really feel the perfect due to some success of yours. The fruits of your many efforts may be misplaced in a second of carelessness.
119. Christ calls for that we be like youngsters. The kid feels assured holding his father’s hand. He has little question that the great father will give him no matter he desires. After we pray to God, we must always have that very same childlike, dwelling religion in our Heavenly Father. This is likely one of the situations for our prayers to be heard. It’s a reward from God, and subsequently earlier than you pray for any want, to begin with, ask God to ship you from disbelief and strengthen your religion.
120. I’ve noticed you that throughout the singing you get moved and shed tears. It is a very clear proof of the contact of Divine energy and style to your coronary heart. Nevertheless, watch out to not idiot your self (self-seduce, seduce your self). Basically, emotions are one thing impermanent and we shouldn’t belief them an excessive amount of. However particularly for religious singing, it’s identified that lots of the saints acquired sturdy religion due to it. And you’re doing nicely to hearken to our great church choir.
Word: The soul-beneficial teachings of Archbishop Seraphim Sobolev have been recorded by his religious baby, Nikola Mutafchiev, and have been printed within the e book “The Sofia Wonderworker Seraphim for the Secrets and techniques of Victory”, Sofia, 2003.
In regards to the creator: Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) of Boguchar is likely one of the most outstanding clergymen of our time. Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, whose episcopal ministry is nearly solely in Bulgaria. He was solemnly glorified as a newly canonized saint – Unfathomable pleasure overwhelmed the souls of 1000’s of Christians who stuffed the patriarchal cathedral “St. Alexander Nevsky”, to change into a part of this vital religious celebration ¬ the glorification of St. Seraphim, Archbishop Bogucharski, Sofia Miracle Employee, which came about on February 26, 2016.
Photograph: Miraculous Icon of Ever-Virgin Mom of God. Batchkovo monastery – Bulgaria / Ikoni Mahnevi, https://www.fb.com/profile.php?id=100057324623799
