Saint Paul

the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God.

those who claim to be wise become foolish.

The time is short, and it's necessary that those who are married should live as if they were not, those who weep should do so as if they were not weeping, those who rejoice should do so as if they were not rejoicing, those who buy should do so as if they did not possess, and those who use the world should do so as if they were not using it.

Because when he resists them, he gains courage, purity, light, comfort, and many blessings, just as our Lord said to Saint Paul: 'Virtue is made perfect in weakness.'

Whoever wants to unite with God must believe in God's existence.

Whoever wants to be united with God must have faith.

The works that are done are ordained by God.

When I was a child, I spoke, thought, and understood like a child, but when I became a man, I put aside childish ways.

Saint Paul was troubled by people's lack of spiritual readiness and inability to receive the Spirit, so he wrote to the Corinthians, saying he had to speak to them as if they were not spiritual, but worldly, because they couldn't understand deeper things then or now.

The letter kills, but the spirit gives life, as Saint Paul says.

It's not right to know more than we need to know.

Because the covetous person doesn't focus on setting their heart on God's law due to temporal blessings, their soul moves far away from God in terms of memory, understanding, and will, forgetting Him as if He weren't their God. This happens because they've made money and temporal blessings their own god, as Saint Paul says when he describes greed as slavery to idols.

Saint Paul proves these points, referring to the sensual person (who directs their will solely towards sensory things) as the animal man, who does not perceive divine things.

However, Saint Paul calls the person who lifts their will to God a spiritual man, stating that this person understands and judges all things, including the deep aspects of God.

संत पॉल कहते हैं: 'आत्मा किसी को भी दी जाती है ताकि वह दूसरों के लाभ के लिए काम करे।'

You teach others but don't teach yourself. You preach that people shouldn't steal, but you steal.

This will end when, as Saint Paul says, what is partial will end, which is this darkness of faith, and what is perfect will come, which is the Divine light.

It's impossible for someone who isn't spiritual to judge or understand God's things in a reasonable way, especially when they judge based on their senses, so even if spiritual truths are presented in a way that appears sensory, they won't truly understand them.

However, such substantial visions - like those of Saint Paul and Moses, and our father Elias, when he covered his face at the gentle whisper of God - although fleeting, occur very rarely, in fact, almost never and to very few.

For Saint Paul says: Even if we or an angel from heaven preach a different gospel, let them be anathema.