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The patient cannot be fully counted among the living, because he lives a half-life, some kind of shadow of life. His very spiritual faculties become numb and do not act as they should. Nowadays Christians do not suffer from chains and swords; Let us suffer torment from illness and other sorrows. Every time is given its own kind of suffering, but our time is given petty suffering. Let's endure them. God's scales and rewards. 113.
The path leading to the Kingdom of Heaven is narrow and sad. Among its sorrows are illnesses by which the body and soul are cleansed from sinful corruption. He, before whose eyes is the Cross of Christ, is consoled in his illnesses by the illnesses of the Redeemer. He who, looking at his sins, considers himself worthy of eternal torment, rejoices when illness befalls him in this life. After illnesses of this kind, as now in M.A., one usually feels a special lightness in body and soul. 119.
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