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George720
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Our starting point is always wrong.
Instead of beginning with ourselves,
we always want to change others first
and ourselves last.
If everyone were to begin
first with themselves,
then there would be
peace all around!
Elder Thaddeus(Strabulovich) of Vitovnica
Would it be difficult for God to constantly help everyone?
No, but then man would not be really helped in this way.
A spoiled child, whose parents constantly give him chocolates
so he wants them always to be giving him,
will become lazy, ill-disposed and unfortunate.
Man, too, will never mature spiritually
if he is constantly assisted by God
without struggling himself
St. Paisios of Mt. Athos
Instead of beginning with ourselves,
we always want to change others first
and ourselves last.
If everyone were to begin
first with themselves,
then there would be
peace all around!
Elder Thaddeus(Strabulovich) of Vitovnica
Would it be difficult for God to constantly help everyone?
No, but then man would not be really helped in this way.
A spoiled child, whose parents constantly give him chocolates
so he wants them always to be giving him,
will become lazy, ill-disposed and unfortunate.
Man, too, will never mature spiritually
if he is constantly assisted by God
without struggling himself
St. Paisios of Mt. Athos
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