Отчаяние

Despair. Falling into sins should not lead a person to despair (page 7, pp. 35–36). – During the changes that occur in the spiritual dispensation, one should not despair (fn. 46, pp. 195, 196). – Do not despair – and with thoughts of humility, make your sins forgivable (page 46, page 198). – If we take thousands of blows every day, we will not be faint-hearted (fol. 47, p. 204). – Why should a person not despair until the end of his life, but resort to prayer? (f. 47, pp. 204–205). – The fathers, with their writings, try to remove the fear of despair from us, so that we resort to repentance, and not in order to give us a reason to sin (page 62, pp. 337–338). This index is based on the index appended to the works of St. Isaac the Syrian, published by Optina Pustyn in 1854. * “Ascetic words.” Reprint. Sergiev Posad. 1911. M.: “Rule of Faith”, 1998