Милость, милостыня, милосердие

Mercy, alms, mercy. By serving alms, with your mind you enter into communication with God through likening Him (word 1, p. 7). – Almsgiving is the path to spiritual love (page 1, page 7). – Pour mercy on everyone (page 9, p. 48). – Deeds of alms are not suitable for a silent person, which drive him out into the world and plunge him into confusion (fol. 13, pp. 53–55; f. 14, pp. 55–59). – Almsgiving and the bodily repose of others are appropriate for laymen and cenobitic monks (f. 13, p. 54). – Which monk is obliged to give alms, and which one is not obliged? (f. 14, pp. 55–56). – Commandment about almsgiving (page 41, page 173). – Mercy allows us to see the image of God in ourselves (f. 41, p. 173). – A merciful person is the doctor of his soul (page 41, page 173). – What is a merciful heart? (f. 48, pp. 205–206). How can a silent person fulfill the commandment of mercy? (fn. 55, pp. 247–248). – Examples of mercy and love: Saints Macarius and Agathon (page 55, pp. 249–250). - When giving alms, one must also have other virtues, and especially - to forgive one’s neighbor’s sins - and who is truly merciful? (fn. 56, pp. 278–279; fn. 58, p. 309). – Alms bring the heart closer to God (page 56, page 286). – Give alms with kindness and consoling words (fol. 56, p. 287; f. 89, pp. 422–423). – Encouragement to give alms without distinction between the worthy and the unworthy (page 56, p. 287). – When doing good to someone, do not expect retribution from him (page 56, p. 287). – Abandonment of alms for the sake of a higher feat (page 56, pp. 287–288). – Sow alms on humility (page 57, page 293). – God do not accept alms from a fornicator (fol. 57, p. 293). – A man of God is one who, out of mercy, deprives himself of satisfying necessary needs (f. 57, p. 297). – He who has mercy on the poor has God as his guardian (f. 57, p. 297). - He who has the opportunity should give alms, but he who does not have anything to give to another, how can he console himself? (fn. 57, pp. 297–298). – Love the poor, so that through them you too may receive mercy (fol. 57, p. 305). – The Merciful has mercy on everyone without distinction (fol. 58, p. 309). – What is true and perfect mercy? (f. 58, pp. 309–310). – God’s mercy to people (f. 67, pp. 349–350; f. 71, p. 365; f. 90, p. 432). – A sign of mercy (compassionateness) is forgiveness of any debt (page 85, p. 404). – What are mercy and justice, united in one soul, like? (fn. 89, p. 419). – The relationship between mercy and justice (f. 89, pp. 419–420). – Mercy is sadness aroused by grace (fol. 89, p. 420). – Like a handful of sand thrown into the great sea, the same is the fall of all flesh in comparison with the mercy of God (fol. 89, p. 420). – Justice is exceeded by God’s mercy (fol. 89, p. 420). 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