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But I've remembered something Leskov "Episcopal Justice".

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"... And since I see that comes out is not something that they want and what your religion is constantly growing , as in ever increasing splendor and glory , it becomes clear to me that the Holy Spirit is its foundation and support , as religion more true and holy than any other. therefore, I firmly persisted thy exhortations and who did not wish to become a Christian , now say openly that nothing will stop me from accepting Christianity. So , we go to church and, following the rites of your holy faith , baptize me. " (Abraham - " a very rich Jew, a merchant and a very honest and straightforward person" )
Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron"

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"" Blessed are those who believe, - the warmth of his light "(Griboedov" Woe from Wit ")

From the story of Nikolai Semenovich Leskov "Episcopal Justice":

"It does not feel superfluous to say that in no one of the persons of whom I have to say here (of course, also a Jew), there was no apostate, or indifferent toward religion.

As for Prince Hilarion Illarionovich Vasilchikova, the governor-general of Kiev, his religious beliefs to me, of course, close to unknown, but I think that it was orthodoxy no less than every orthodox Russian dignitary - and maybe even a little bit more, and some . Simple, direct and warm his soul was looking for support in the faith of the people, the people that for the Russian people do not like our native Orthodoxy throughout the inviolable purity and soundness of his teachings.

One highly respected business people and the governor-general management - Andrey Drukart. He was then officer on special assignments for Vasilchikova Prince (later in the post Sedletskii lieutenant governor, he took part in the final destruction of the union). Drukart - Russian-born Lithuanian provinces - had a double portion of the passion to Orthodoxy, which for him was not only faith, but a kind of spiritual banner of the Russian nationality. In addition to performance efficiency, was an excellent reader Drukart in a dramatic way, and a gifted actor. I have not heard of anyone who would read Shakespeare's Hamlet better than it used to read Drukart.

I grew up in his native noble family in the city of Orel, the father, the man is very intelligent, much-read and expert in theology, and his mother, a pious and devout, I learned from the best of religion and at the time of the famous rabbis about. Euphemia A. Ostromyslenskogo, a good lesson that it is always appreciated. Unsteadiness in the religious circles in which I was then rotated in Kiev, is not it, and I was as I was learning to orthodox thinking of my own father and of my superior zakonouchitelya ". http://az.lib .ru/l/leskow_n_s/text_0009.shtml

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" In vain did they think to be Christians , those who do not have tried to become good people. Go to Christ , with bad intentions against the man , more incongruous than to visit in her dressing gown . " ( Laurence Sterne, English pastor suttonskogo parish, " famed for his cheerful wit and tender sensibility ")

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"As a child in his province of Orel, where he was born, Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev (Amphitheater), I heard about him as a man of infinite kindness. In all these stories, Metropolitan Filaret was a humble and patient, gentle and peaceful man - no more. Active kindness it, which was expressed in general terms, I do not know of any one particular manifestation.

Personally, I saw it the first time in the house chairman of the Exchequer. When we, the hosts and guests met him in the hall, he blessed us all who approached him for a blessing, and then, noticing
one remaining at the table, a young girl, a former governess in the house, he looked at her and, without moving a step further, he said:
- Well, what do you have?
The girl gave him a deep curtsey, and respectful, too, remained at the same place.
- What do ... go! - Called Metropolitan. But this time he was approached by the master and softly whispered:
- Your Eminence, - it is a Protestant.
- A?., What exactly is that a Protestant: it is not the same Jewess.
- No, my lord, - Protestant.
- Well, as a Protestant, so come here, baby, go, girl, come: this way, the Lord bless thee in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
And he blessed her, and she seemed much moved, like in our example to kiss his hand, he stroked her head and said:
- Clever!
A girl so touched by this, probably, quite unexpected caress her, which burst into tears and ran into the inner chambers.

Later, she again went to the Metropolitan, received from him a blessing, icons, and booklets, and finished that converted to Orthodoxy and, say, led to the world an extremely high ascetic life, and always passionately loved and respected Philaret. "
(Nikolai Leskov, S. "Episcopal Justice" http://az.lib.ru/l/leskow_n_s/text_0009.shtml)

Thank you, Cyril, with the remarkable story of Leskov.

- Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev (Amphitheater) (1779, the village of High, Kromy county, Orel province - 1857, Kiev). Venerated as a saint.

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"The great spiritual and political revolution of our planet is Christianity. In this sacred element disappeared and renewed the world. " " The Greek religion, separate from all others , gives us a special national character. " " Russia has never had nothing in common with the rest of Europe ", " the story requires it another thought , another formula. " (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)

" Hold on just the time comes, will be the time you will know what the Russian Orthodox faith !" ( Nikolai Gogol )
 
"The Russian people and the whole of Orthodoxy in the idea of ​​it. More in him and he has nothing - and is not necessary, because the Orthodox Church - everything. Who does not understand Orthodoxy - that nothing ever understand the people. " ( Fyodor Dostoevsky )

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"The importance of Orthodoxy in Russian history, culture determines the spiritual. Thousand-year history of Russia is created by people of Christian faith; Russia terms, strengthened and deployed its spiritual culture is in Christianity, and Christianity is practiced, perceived, contemplated and introduced into practice in the act of orthodoxy.

The entire Russian culture terms, strengthened and flourished in the spirit of Orthodoxy and became such, what it was in the early twentieth century, primarily because she was not Catholic.

Russian people believed and believes loving, praying heart, reads the Gospel freely, and the authority of the Church helps him in his freedom and instructs his freedom by helping his spiritual eye, rather than scaring his earthly executions in the "avoid" otherworldly.
Russian philanthropy and "nischelyubie" Russian Tsars were always from the heart and kindness.
Russian art of the whole thing grew out of the contemplation of a free heart: and soaring Russian poetry, and dreams of Russian prose and the depth of Russian painting, and sincere lyricism of Russian music, Russian and expressive sculpture, and spirituality of Russian architecture, and deeply felt of Russian theater.

The spirit of Christian love and penetrated into the Russian medicine, her spirit of service, selflessness, intuitive holistic diagnosis induvidualizatsii patient and fraternal attitude to suffering, and to the Russian yurispridentsiyu with her quest for justice, and a Russian mathematician, with its objective contemplation. He created a tradition in Russian historiography Solovyov Kliuchevskoi and Zabelin. He created a tradition in the Russian army of Suvorov, and in the tradition of the Russian school Ushinsky and Pirogov.

It is necessary to see the heart of the deep bond that unites Russian-Orthodox Saints and Elders from the tenor of Russian common people and the educated mind. The whole Russian way of life different and special, because the Slavic soul strengthened his heart in the precepts of Orthodoxy. "(Ivan Ilyin" The Orthodoxy and Catholicism ")

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... Slavic soul strengthened his heart in the precepts of orthodoxy .

It is interesting , but what about the " Slavic souls " of Ukrainians , Belorussians, Ruthenians - Greek- Catholics ? Or - with a " Slavic souls " of the Poles , Czechs, Slovaks, luzhichan , Croats , Slovenes - just Katalikov ?
And with the " Slavic souls " Bosnians - Muslims?

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The question of the soul, each person must decide for itself, and no one has the right to impose something to him. And he solves it, experiencing the impact of culture-root soil structure (influence of family, lifestyle, a way of faith), which passes through an artificially imposed political, "fashionable", and other temporary and, therefore, historically superficial influence. One day there comes a time when a man must honestly admit who he was.

For the other can not solve. As for Russia - Russian, foreigners taking and respecting them, he had never imposed his way of life. And according to the Russian proverb: "The stranger the Romans did not go."

Ivan Ilyin wrote: "The originality of the Russian people is expressed in his special little peculiar and spiritual act. Under the" act "must understand the internal structure and the way of man: his way of feeling, contemplate, think, desire and action. Russian national instrument shaped by four great factors: nature (continental, plain, climate, soil) Slavic soul, Especially faith, the historical development. "

"Orthodoxy appeals to free the human heart. Catholicism appeals to blindly submissive to the will. Orthodoxy seeks to awaken in man a living, creative love and Christian conscience. Catholicism demands obedience and respect for human requirements (legalism). Orthodoxy asks about the best, and calls for the Gospel excellence. Catholic asks about "prescribed", "forbidden," "let," "forgiven" and "inexcusable." Orthodoxy is at heart, looking for genuine faith and sincere kindness. Catholic disciplines of the outer man, looking for outdoor satisfied the formal piety and visibility good deeds. "

"Those who would build a religion in freedom and obedience to authority, he must necessarily be limited faith in mental and verbal" recognition ", leaving the heart is cold and callous, replacing the living love legalism and discipline, and Christian kindness" laudable ", but the dead things. And the prayer becomes a soulless in his speech and insincere gesture. Those who know the religion of ancient pagan Rome, he soon learns that all of its tradition. It is these features of the Catholic religion has always tested the Russian soul as alien, strange, artificially strained, insincere . And when we hear from the Orthodox people in the Catholic liturgy is the external solemnity, grandeur brought up some "niceties", but there is sincerity and warmth, humility, and no burning, no sheer prayer, and therefore of spiritual beauty, we know where to find the explanation for this. "

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That's what I wrote Father John of Kronstadt (Sergiev):

"The most harmful thing in Christianity, in the divinely revealed, heavenly religion is the primacy of man in the church, for example, the pope, and his imaginary infallibility. It was in his dogma of infallibility, and is the greatest error, because my father has a sinful man, the trouble, if he imagines about himself that he is infallible. How many of the greatest errors, fatal to the souls of men invented Catholic, papal church - in the dogmas, in rites, in the canonical rules, in worship, in a deadening, angry Catholics to the Orthodox relations in hulah and slander the Orthodox Church in curses addressed to the Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Christians! And in all this blame infallible, supposedly, the pope, and his doctrine of the Jesuits, their spirit of lies, double-mindedness and all of the wrong ad maiorem Dei gloriam (greater allegedly glory of God .)
 
Pope bound spiritual freedom and conscience of the Christian Catholics. Catholics are jealous of the Pope, not of Christ, for my father are fighting, not for Christ and their zeal for the faith becomes fanaticism is always passionate, chelovekonenavistny, furious, bigotry and blood sword (the fires), intolerance, double-mindedness, deceit, cunning.

Do Protestants - the Germans and Englishmen, very distorted notion of the Church, because they have no legal grace of the priesthood, no sacraments except baptism, and (most important) the communion of the Body and Blood of Christ, there is no tribe of heaven - the Church of heaven: do not recognize saints, there is no the tribe of hell - the dead do not recognize and do not pray for them, considering it unnecessary.

Glory to the Orthodox Church! Glory to God, to Christ - Holy Head, Head of the Church of God united in the land! Glory to God in the Trinity, that we not fall into blasphemy against God, is not recognized and did not recognize the head of the church unto the holy sinner!
 
Anglicans and Lutherans: You want to avoid images that they are not respected! Yes it is ridiculous, absurd. Man is the image of God, and you read it in the face of his father, mother, boss, the Emperor, various benefactors, and the image of God in the flesh, the Father, the Head of the Faith, King, Savior, Benefactor, or the Blessed Virgin His Mother, the Cherubim and the highest of all creatures - prophets, apostles, martyrs, bishops, saints do not want to read? After all, the Saints - his friend, churches, members of Him, in whom he sleeps. Do not you know, for through the temple of God is natural, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (Cor 3, 16). And all of us - Udi esmy his body, of His flesh and of His bones (Eph. 5, 30) His sons and daughters, giving birth to him. How not to honor their images? "Http://theme.orthodoxy.ru/saints/ioann.html