The soul cannot have peace unless it prays for its enemies. The soul, taught to pray from the grace of God, loves and pities every creature, and especially man, for whom the Lord suffered on the cross and his soul ached for all of us.
The Lord taught me to love my enemies. Without the grace of God we cannot love our enemies, but the Holy Spirit teaches love, and then we will feel sorry even for the demons: we have lost humility and love for God.
I beg you, try it. Whoever insults you, or dishonors you, or takes away what is yours, or persecutes the Church, then pray to the Lord, saying: “Lord, we are all Your creation; have pity on Your servants and turn them to repentance,” and then you will tangibly carry grace in your soul. First, force your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good desire, will help you in everything, and experience itself will show you. But whoever thinks evil about his enemies does not have the love of God, and he does not know God.
If you pray for your enemies, peace will come to you; and when you love your enemies, then know that the grace of God lives in you, great, but not yet perfect, but sufficient for salvation. And if you revile your enemies, it means that an evil spirit lives in you and brings evil thoughts into your heart, for, as the Lord said, evil or good thoughts come from the heart.
A good person thinks: everyone who strays from the truth perishes, and therefore one feels sorry for him. And whoever has not been taught love by the Holy Spirit will, of course, not pray for his enemies. He who is taught love from the Holy Spirit grieves all his life for people who are not saved, and sheds many tears for the people, and the grace of God gives him the strength to love his enemies.
If you do not have love, then at least do not revile or curse them; and this will be better; and if someone curses and scolds, an evil spirit clearly lives in him, and if he does not repent, then after death he will go to where the evil spirits reside. May the Lord deliver every soul from such trouble.
Understand. It's that simple. I feel sorry for those people who do not know God or go against God; my heart aches for them, and tears flow from my eyes. We can clearly see both heaven and torment; we knew it by the Holy Spirit. So the Lord said: The Kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:21). So from here eternal life begins; and eternal torment begins from here.