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Grace. What happens in a person when grace increases and decreases? (sl. 1, pp. 2–3). – A virtuous life is the gift of grace (page 21, pp. 106–109). – Without grace, even a pure mind cannot approach contemplation (f. 43, p. 182). – About the actions of the mind when it is granted grace and dispassion (f. 43, p. 185). – During the instillation of grace, one should not be exalted, but one should expect change and sorrow (f. 46, p. 197). – How to resist exaltation and encourage yourself to humility? (fol. 46, p. 198). – A person can maintain a good dispensation only with the assistance of grace (f. 46, p. 198). – Grace will help us during battle (fol. 46, p. 200). – Grace reveals its power and delivers from troubles those who have rejected hope in people (fol. 49, p. 218). – She teaches them also in relation to the innermost (page 49, pp. 218–219). – When grace confirms our trust in God, then it allows us to fall into temptation; and if a person ascends in his thoughts, then he allows stronger temptations to attack him (f. 49, pp. 219–220). – How grace trains ascetics in battle against the enemy (page 60, pp. 326–327). – Why does God withhold His grace and not give it to man? (fn. 61, p. 335). – According to the greatness of grace, to the same extent God leads the soul into the sorrow of temptation (fol. 78, p. 387). – Grace comes before temptation, however, the feeling of temptation, for testing freedom, certainly precedes the feeling of grace (f. 78, p. 388). – Grace precedes in the mind, but slows down in feeling (fol. 78, p. 388). – Grace is preceded by humility, and punishment is preceded by conceit (fol. 85, p. 403). 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