People who are distant from God are always inconsolable and are twice tortured.
People who do not believe in God and in the future life, apart from remaining inconsolable, they also condemn their soul forever.
The boss you are working for, is the one that will pay you. If you work for an evil boss, he will make your life a hell.
If you work in sin, you will be paid by the devil. If you work in virtue, you will be paid by Christ.
And as long as you work for Christ, you will be enlightened and filled with joy. But we say, “Are we insane to work for Christ?”
But it is terrible not to recognize the sacrifice of Christ for man! Christ was crucified to redeem us from sin, to purify the whole human race. What did Christ do for us? What do we do for Christ?
People want to sin and want God to be good. He should forgive us, while we sin.
That is, we do whatever we want and He has to forgive us. He always forgives us and we do our things. People do not believe, so they are rushing to sin. All evil begins there, from unbelief.
They do not believe in after life, so they do not value anything. They are unfair, they abandon their children… There are things… serious sins.
Neither the Holy Fathers have predicted such sins in the Sacred Canons – as in Sodom and Gomorrah, God had said: “I do not believe that there are such sins, I’ll go and see!”
Unless people repent and return to God, they will lose their eternal life. A person must be helped in order to feel the deepest meaning of life, to recover, to feel the divine consolation. The goal is for man to ascend spiritually, not just not to sin.
Elder Paisios Athonites