NO PAIN, NO GAIN

  NO PAIN, NO GAIN

 

  I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. (Romans 8, Bible)

    “We should somehow gain our future happiness through suffering; pay for it with some new torment. Suffering purifies everything…” – wrote Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Wonderful words, aren’t they? There is an opinion that if a man was spared sufferings, he would become “powerless despot”.

    Reality is that there is no such person on earth, who has nev...

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DIVINE LOVE

(Is love a flame or longing for happiness?)

 

The last drop that made me write this article was watching French movie “Quelques Mots D'amour”, the title of which in Russian translation literally sounds like “Body in Love”. Her Majesty Love comes into the main characters’ life: they fall head over heels in love with each other. Emergence of this wonderful feeling instantly changes the way main heroes see themselves, others, responsibilities and immerses them in a state of trance. The eyewitness of everything is a friend, who collects illustrative material...

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