1612. Love is God. If you love God, God abides in you, and you are in God [cf. 1 John 4:16]. Malice is the devil. For a moment you become angry with your neighbor — and the demon in you will come in like a needle and try to become a mountain in you — so he expands and is so heavy! Therefore, love God and your neighbor constantly. Do not allow malice to enter your heart even for a moment, considering it a demonic dream. "Amen."

1613. Love is long-suffering and merciful [1 Cor. 13:4], but malice is impatient, quick to anger, and exacting. Malice is quick to exact, but love is quick to condescension and forgiveness. Love looks at its own shortcomings and is reluctant to notice them in others, malice is keen at the slightest shortcomings of its neighbor and is blind to its own great shortcomings. In our neighbor we see a mote, but in our own we do not see a log, and this is often and often, despite the inner admonitions from God.

1614. Fear malice as fire; Do not allow it to come to your heart because of any plausible pretext, especially because of anything unpleasant to you: malice is always malice, always the fiend of the devil. Malice sometimes comes to the heart under the pretext of zeal for the glory of God or for the good of others; do not believe in your jealousy in this case: it is a lie or jealousy not according to reason; be jealous that there is no malice in you. God is glorified by nothing so much as by love that endures all, and is not so dishonored or offended by anything as malice, no matter what plausibility it may be used assuming. Under the mask of caring for the poor, Judas, hiding his malice against his Lord, betrayed Him for 30 pieces of silver. Remember that the enemy vigilantly seeks your destruction and attacks you when you least expect him. His malice is endless. Do not be bound by self-love and voluptuousness, so that they do not conveniently captivate you.

1615. God is inexhaustible for people in His gifts. For 7370 years [written in 1863] He has abundantly nourished all creatures. Everywhere one can see contentment and joy, only the greedy rich rake too much into their hands and keep in their treasuries the gifts of God, which could more than feed hundreds and thousands of the poor. "A man!" firmly believe in the inexhaustibility of God in His gifts, and break your bread willingly to those who hunger [Isaiah 58:7]; the more you give, the more God will send you. Such is God's law: according to the measure you measure, it will be measured to you [cf. Matt. 7:2].

1616. Learn to remember and pronounce the name God always with great faith, reverence, love, and a grateful heart. Never say it lightly.

1617. Speak and do all truth without doubt, boldly, firmly, and decisively. Avoid doubt, timidity, lethargy and indecision. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but strength and love [2 Tim. 1:7; cf. Rom. 8. 15]. Our Lord is the Lord of hosts.

1618. Breathe faith (certainty in God's truth), hope in God, and love for God and neighbor. And how to help this? Disbelief in the durability of all earthly things; not relying on earthly goods – food, drink, money, wealth, earthly connections; dislike, indifference to everything earthly, perishable. Do not cling to anything with your heart, do not have an attachment to anything. Ye are wise in the things above, and not in the earthly [Col. 3:2].

1619. God is love, and I am the image of God, which means that I must also be all love. God is the simplest good, alien to any shadow of evil. I am the image of God: therefore, I must also be completely good, without even a shadow of evil. If the enemy troubles you with food or drink, say to him, 'This is my food and drink, the Body and Blood of my Lord, they are inseparable from me; As long as I am a priest, I can commune them every week, and for the most part several times a week. Moreover, if I seek within myself the Kingdom of God by trusting in Him, my Lord, then all earthly things that are necessary for me will be added, according to the Scriptures: seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you [Matt. 6:33]. My God is faithful. Everything is God for me. These words are deeply rooted in reflection.

1620. Do not be embittered by anything, conquer everything with love: all offenses, whims, all kinds of family troubles. "Know nothing but love. Always blame yourself sincerely, admitting that you are the culprit of trouble. Say: I am guilty, I am a sinner. Remember that as you are weak, so is your neighbor, and weakness for weakness is destroyed, and there is nothing to blame for the weak and sinners, if they confess their weakness. The devil, who is strong in evil, must be blamed.

1621. The Heavenly Father cares so much for me, for my life, for my salvation, that He did not spare His only-begotten Son for me and sent Him into the world to suffer and die, and nourishes me with His Flesh and Blood; could it be that He did not take care of me in matters of less importance, or deprived me and my companions of sufficient sustenance? "This has not happened before, and it will not be. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you [Matt. 6:33]... And to you are all the hairs of the head. Do not be afraid, for [Matt. 10:30, 31].

1622. My life is the Eternal Lord, Who is the Almighty; I am completely immersed in this life. Who is over all, and in all, and through us all [Ephesians 4:6]. I am always in the presence of God, I am always in God and He is in me. Will I rely on food and drink, on money, on man? Will I not be blind then? Truly God is my hope, He is everything to me!

1623. We must remember more often the words of the Saviour: "If ye do not humble yourselves, and ye shall be like children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven" [Matt. 18:3, 4] and the Apostle: "As newborn babes, ye shall love the verbal and unflattering milk, that ye may grow up in it unto salvation" [1 Pet. 2:2], (unflattering — undeceitful, unfeigned, true).

1624. Be especially meek and patient in sickness and in various unfavorable circumstances: for then we are especially prone to irritability, pampered by contentment, health, happiness, and peace. The happy among us are those who have no addiction to anything, because they are not bound by avarice.

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