Some people, despite their wealth and position, remember that they are no better than others and try to be humble, care for their neighbors, and do good deeds in imitation of the Lord.
About ten such people - worthy examples for each of us, especially for many powerful Russians, we would like to tell you today.
The deeds of these people amaze and inspire respect. Having achieved a lot in life, they did not become slaves of their wealth and position and are grateful to other people:
1. Bishop Longin (Heat)
This hierarch (photo in the header) proved with his life that the image of the bishop, replicated in the media, as a swaggering fat man in an expensive car, neglecting the flock entrusted to him by God, is not true.
While still a priest, the bishop rebuilt the Holy Ascension Monastery in the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine and, under him, founded a church boarding school for more than 1,000 orphans and disabled children, more than 400 of whom he adopted.
In addition to his pastoral duties for the revival of Orthodoxy in Ukraine, Vladyka Longin has been raising children taken into his care for many years.
In recent years, he has also actively opposed the beginning and then the continuation of the civil war unleashed by the Kyiv Nazi regime in the South-East of Ukraine. And this despite regular threats against him from dissenters and neo-Nazis.
His life and activities are well described in the film “Forpost”, known to almost all Orthodox Christians of the CIS.
2. Vladislav Tetyukhin
Ural magnate engaged in titanium mining as a co-owner of a large metallurgical company.
At 80, he did not buy a villa in warm countries. Instead, Vladislav Tetyukhin sold all his shares and built a medical center for fellow countrymen in Nizhny Tagil with the proceeds of 3.3 billion rubles.
In the future, the billionaire plans to build a hotel, new houses for clinic employees with 350 apartments, a hostel for students, a transport block and a helipad.
Tetyukhin now holds the post of general director here and, at 82, comes to work strictly according to the schedule: by 9:00 in the morning, 6 days a week.
3. Swedish Princess Madeleine
The princess of the Swedish royal house does not exalt her position.
At royal receptions, Princess Madeleine appears in dresses for $ 130 bought at the Stockholm markets and does not hesitate to clean up the poop after her dog on a walk.
It is worth noting that such behavior is typical for many representatives of the royal houses of Europe and its financial and managerial elite. Wild kitsch is left to the nouveau riche.
4. Brian Burney
Bernie can be called a British construction oligarch.
Everything was going great for this millionaire until his wife was diagnosed with cancer. Then Bernie took up charity work.
He transferred a significant part of his fortune to the creation of a whole column of medical machines. These cars drove through small villages in northern England and provided high-tech medical care to the sick. Brian Burney paid the doctors' salaries out of his own pocket.
With God's help, his wife recovered. To celebrate, Brian Burney sold most of the property and gave the money to charity.
Now he lives on a small pension in a small apartment and drives a used car.
5. President of Uruguay
José Cordano is the president of Uruguay, but the locals call him El Pepe. He donates 9/10 of his presidential salary to charity, making him the poorest (or most generous) president in the world.
José earns 263,000 Uruguayan pesos (400,000 rubles) a month, leaving only 26,300 pesos (40,000 rubles) for himself.
He lives in a rural house on a farm, without debts and bank accounts. Jose carries water for the household himself from a well in the yard. The biggest purchase of his life was a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle.
6. Boris Johnson
Boris is the mayor of London. He rides a bicycle to work, does not hesitate to go without a tie, freely wears a sports jacket, backpack and bicycle helmet.
The official is one of the main and most consistent supporters of the development of cycling in the UK and advocates a healthy lifestyle.
7. Olaf Ton
The Norwegian billionaire lives quite modestly. He is married but has no children. Therefore, he decided to donate all his wealth, calmly parting with $ 6,000,000,000: “I have a bicycle and skis, but I eat a little. So I think everything will be fine."
Olaf Ton planned to spend all his money on financing medical research so that they would benefit people, saying: “I still can’t take them with me.”
Michael Bloomberg once served as mayor of New York (USA).
He is a very interesting person, even if you do not know that he has the 13th place in the list of the richest people in the world.
At the same time, the businessman does not stop riding the subway. And at his workplace he works in an ascetic environment: on ordinary office furniture, traditional monitors, papers, graphs, some trinkets and ... a can of peanut butter next to the keyboard.
9. Chuck Feeney
The founder of the famous Duty Free chain of stores, Chuck Feeney, lives very modestly.
Over the past 30 years, he has traveled the world, carefully getting rid of the accumulated capital of $ 7.5 billion. Feeney has spent his business income on charity.
His charitable foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, has invested $6.2 billion in education, science, health care and nursing homes around the world. By 2020, Chuck Feeney wants to spend all his capital on helping those in need.
10. Sergey Brin
Sergey is a legend in the computer business, co-founder and president of technology at Google Corporation.
Billionaire and one of America's richest men, Sergei lives modestly - lives in a three-room apartment in San Francisco and drives a used Toyota Prius with an environmentally friendly hybrid engine.
His hobby is visiting Katya's Russian Tea Room in San Francisco and recommending borscht, pancakes and dumplings to guests.
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"Rus' is not without good people!" Russian people can be safely attributed to the most sympathetic peoples of the world. And we have someone to look up to.
Okolnichiy Fyodor Rtishchev
Even during his lifetime, Fyodor Rtishchev, a close friend and adviser to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, received the nickname "gracious husband." Klyuchevsky wrote that Rtishchev fulfilled only part of the commandment of Christ - he loved his neighbor, but not himself. He was from that rare breed of people who put the interests of others above their own "I want." It was on the initiative of the “bright man” that the first shelters for the poor appeared not only in Moscow, but also abroad. For Rtishchev, it was common to pick up a drunk on the street and take him to a temporary shelter organized by him - an analogue of a modern sobering-up station. How many were saved from death and did not freeze in the street, one can only guess.
In 1671, Fyodor Mikhailovich sent grain carts to the starving Vologda, and then the money received from the sale of personal property. And when he found out about the need of the Arzamas residents for additional lands, he simply presented his own.
During the Russian-Polish war, he took out not only compatriots, but also Poles from the battlefield. He hired doctors, rented houses, bought food and clothing for the wounded and prisoners, again at his own expense. After the death of Rtishchev, his "Life" appeared - a unique case of demonstrating the holiness of a layman, and not a monk.
Empress Maria Feodorovna
The second wife of Paul I, Maria Fedorovna, was famous for her excellent health and tirelessness. Starting the morning with cold douches, prayers and strong coffee, the Empress devoted the rest of the day to taking care of her countless pupils. She knew how to convince moneybags to donate money for the construction of educational institutions for noble maidens in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Simbirsk and Kharkov. With her direct participation, the largest charitable organization was created - the Imperial Humanitarian Society, which existed until the beginning of the 20th century.
Having 9 children of her own, she especially anxiously took care of abandoned babies: the sick were nursed in foster homes, strong and healthy - in trustworthy peasant families.
This approach has significantly reduced child mortality. With all the scale of her activities, Maria Fedorovna paid attention to trifles that are not essential for life. So, in the Obukhov psychiatric hospital in St. Petersburg, each patient received his own kindergarten.
Prince Vladimir Odoevsky
A descendant of the Rurikids, Prince Vladimir Odoevsky was convinced that the thought he had sown would certainly "sprout tomorrow" or "in a thousand years." A close friend of Griboedov and Pushkin, the writer and philosopher Odoevsky was an active supporter of the abolition of serfdom, worked to the detriment of his own interests for the Decembrists and their families, tirelessly intervened in the fate of the most disadvantaged. He was ready to rush to the aid of anyone who applied, and in everyone he saw a “living string” that could be made to sound for the good of the cause.
The St. Petersburg Society for Visiting the Poor, organized by him, helped 15,000 needy families.
There was a women's workshop, a children's rooming house with a school, a hospital, hostels for the elderly and families, and a social store.
Despite his origins and connections, Odoevsky did not seek to occupy an important post, believing that in a "secondary position" he was able to bring "real benefit." The "strange scientist" tried to help young inventors realize their ideas. The main character traits of the prince, according to contemporaries, were humanity and virtue.
Prince Peter of Oldenburg
An innate sense of justice distinguished the grandson of Paul I from most of his colleagues. He not only served in the Preobrazhensky Regiment during the reign of Nicholas I, but also equipped the first school in the history of the country in which soldiers' children were trained at the place of service. Later, this successful experience was applied to other regiments.
In 1834, the prince witnessed the public punishment of a woman who was driven through the soldiers' formation, after which he petitioned for dismissal, stating that he would never be able to carry out such orders.
Petr Georgievich devoted his further life to charity. He was a trustee and an honorary member of many institutions and societies, including the Kyiv House of Charity for the Poor.
Sergey Skyrmunt
Retired lieutenant Sergei Skyrmunt is almost unknown to the general public. He did not hold high positions and failed to become famous for his good deeds, but he was able to build socialism in a single estate.
At the age of 30, when Sergei Apollonovich painfully pondered his future fate, 2.5 million rubles fell on him from a deceased distant relative.
The inheritance was not squandered or played at cards. One part of it became the basis for donations to the Society for the Promotion of Public Entertainment, the founder of which was Skyrmunt himself. With the rest of the money, the millionaire built a hospital and a school on the estate, and all his peasants were able to move to new huts.
Anna Adler
The whole life of this amazing woman was devoted to educational and pedagogical work. She was an active participant in various charitable societies, helped during the famine in the Samara and Ufa provinces, on her initiative the first public reading room was opened in the Sterlitamak district. But her main efforts were aimed at changing the situation of people with disabilities. For 45 years, she has done everything so that the blind have the opportunity to become full members of society.
She was able to find the means and strength to open the first specialized printing house in Russia, where in 1885 the first edition of the Collection of Articles for Children's Reading, published and dedicated to blind children by Anna Adler, was published.
To get the book out in Braille, she worked seven days a week until late at night, personally typing and proofreading page after page.
Later, Anna Aleksandrovna translated the musical system, and blind children were able to learn to play musical instruments. With her active assistance, a few years later the first group of blind students graduated from the St. Petersburg School for the Blind, and a year later from the Moscow School. Literacy and vocational training helped graduates find jobs, which changed the stereotype of their incapacity. Anna Adler almost did not live to see the opening of the First Congress of the All-Russian Society of the Blind.
Nikolai Pirogov
The whole life of the famous Russian surgeon is a series of brilliant discoveries, the practical use of which has saved more than one life. The men considered him a magician who, for his "miracles", attracts higher powers. He was the first in the world to use surgery in the field, and the decision to use anesthesia saved not only his patients from suffering, but also those who lay on the tables of his students later. By his own efforts, the splints were replaced with bandages soaked in starch.
He was the first to use the method of sorting the wounded into heavy and those who make it to the rear. This has reduced the death rate by several times. Before Pirogov, even a minor wound in the arm or leg could end in amputation.
He personally carried out operations and tirelessly controlled that the soldiers were provided with everything necessary: warm blankets, food, water.
According to legend, it was Pirogov who taught Russian academics to carry out plastic surgery, demonstrating the successful experience of engrafting a new nose on the face of his barber, whom he helped to get rid of deformity.
Being an excellent teacher, about whom all the students spoke with warmth and gratitude, he believed that the main task of education was to teach to be a man.
"Rus' is not without good people!" Russian people can be safely attributed to the most sympathetic peoples of the world. And we have someone to look up to.
Okolnichiy Fyodor Rtishchev
Even during his lifetime, Fyodor Rtishchev, a close friend and adviser to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, received the nickname "gracious husband." Klyuchevsky wrote that Rtishchev fulfilled only part of the commandment of Christ - he loved his neighbor, but not himself. He was from that rare breed of people who put the interests of others above their own "I want." It was on the initiative of the “bright man” that the first shelters for the poor appeared not only in Moscow, but also abroad. For Rtishchev, it was common to pick up a drunk on the street and take him to a temporary shelter organized by him - an analogue of a modern sobering-up station. How many were saved from death and did not freeze in the street, one can only guess.
In 1671, Fyodor Mikhailovich sent grain carts to the starving Vologda, and then the money received from the sale of personal property. And when he found out about the need of the Arzamas residents for additional lands, he simply presented his own.
During the Russian-Polish war, he took out not only compatriots, but also Poles from the battlefield. He hired doctors, rented houses, bought food and clothing for the wounded and prisoners, again at his own expense. After the death of Rtishchev, his "Life" appeared - a unique case of demonstrating the holiness of a layman, and not a monk.
Empress Maria Feodorovna
The second wife of Paul I, Maria Fedorovna, was famous for her excellent health and tirelessness. Starting the morning with cold douches, prayers and strong coffee, the Empress devoted the rest of the day to taking care of her countless pupils. She knew how to convince moneybags to donate money for the construction of educational institutions for noble maidens in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Simbirsk and Kharkov. With her direct participation, the largest charitable organization was created - the Imperial Humanitarian Society, which existed until the beginning of the 20th century.
Having 9 children of her own, she especially anxiously took care of abandoned babies: the sick were nursed in foster homes, strong and healthy - in trustworthy peasant families.
This approach has significantly reduced child mortality. With all the scale of her activities, Maria Fedorovna paid attention to trifles that are not essential for life. So, in the Obukhov psychiatric hospital in St. Petersburg, each patient received his own kindergarten.
Her will contains the following lines: “Give life to Your Spirit with meekness, love and mercy. Be helpers and benefactors to the suffering and the poor.”
Prince Vladimir Odoevsky
A descendant of the Rurikids, Prince Vladimir Odoevsky was convinced that the thought he had sown would certainly "sprout tomorrow" or "in a thousand years." A close friend of Griboedov and Pushkin, the writer and philosopher Odoevsky was an active supporter of the abolition of serfdom, worked to the detriment of his own interests for the Decembrists and their families, tirelessly intervened in the fate of the most disadvantaged. He was ready to rush to the aid of anyone who applied, and in everyone he saw a “living string” that could be made to sound for the good of the cause.
The St. Petersburg Society for Visiting the Poor, organized by him, helped 15,000 needy families.
There was a women's workshop, a children's rooming house with a school, a hospital, hostels for the elderly and families, and a social store.
Despite his origins and connections, Odoevsky did not seek to occupy an important post, believing that in a "secondary position" he was able to bring "real benefit." The "strange scientist" tried to help young inventors realize their ideas. The main character traits of the prince, according to contemporaries, were humanity and virtue.
Prince Peter of Oldenburg
An innate sense of justice distinguished the grandson of Paul I from most of his colleagues. He not only served in the Preobrazhensky Regiment during the reign of Nicholas I, but also equipped the first school in the history of the country in which soldiers' children were trained at the place of service. Later, this successful experience was applied to other regiments.
In 1834, the prince witnessed the public punishment of a woman who was driven through the soldiers' formation, after which he petitioned for dismissal, stating that he would never be able to carry out such orders.
Petr Georgievich devoted his further life to charity. He was a trustee and an honorary member of many institutions and societies, including the Kyiv House of Charity for the Poor.
Sergey Skyrmunt
Retired lieutenant Sergei Skyrmunt is almost unknown to the general public. He did not hold high positions and failed to become famous for his good deeds, but he was able to build socialism in a single estate.
At the age of 30, when Sergei Apollonovich painfully pondered his future fate, 2.5 million rubles fell on him from a deceased distant relative.
The inheritance was not squandered or played at cards. One part of it became the basis for donations to the Society for the Promotion of Public Entertainment, the founder of which was Skyrmunt himself. With the rest of the money, the millionaire built a hospital and a school on the estate, and all his peasants were able to move to new huts.
Anna Adler
The whole life of this amazing woman was devoted to educational and pedagogical work. She was an active participant in various charitable societies, helped during the famine in the Samara and Ufa provinces, on her initiative the first public reading room was opened in the Sterlitamak district. But her main efforts were aimed at changing the situation of people with disabilities. For 45 years, she has done everything so that the blind have the opportunity to become full members of society.
She was able to find the means and strength to open the first specialized printing house in Russia, where in 1885 the first edition of the Collection of Articles for Children's Reading, published and dedicated to blind children by Anna Adler, was published.
To get the book out in Braille, she worked seven days a week until late at night, personally typing and proofreading page after page.
Later, Anna Aleksandrovna translated the musical system, and blind children were able to learn to play musical instruments. With her active assistance, a few years later the first group of blind students graduated from the St. Petersburg School for the Blind, and a year later from the Moscow School. Literacy and vocational training helped graduates find jobs, which changed the stereotype of their incapacity. Anna Adler almost did not live to see the opening of the First Congress of the All-Russian Society of the Blind.
Nikolai Pirogov
The whole life of the famous Russian surgeon is a series of brilliant discoveries, the practical use of which has saved more than one life. The men considered him a magician who, for his "miracles", attracts higher powers. He was the first in the world to use surgery in the field, and the decision to use anesthesia saved not only his patients from suffering, but also those who lay on the tables of his students later. By his own efforts, the splints were replaced with bandages soaked in starch.
He was the first to use the method of sorting the wounded into heavy and those who make it to the rear. This has reduced the death rate by several times. Before Pirogov, even a minor wound in the arm or leg could end in amputation.
He personally carried out operations and tirelessly controlled that the soldiers were provided with everything necessary: warm blankets, food, water.
According to legend, it was Pirogov who taught Russian academics to carry out plastic surgery, demonstrating the successful experience of engrafting a new nose on the face of his barber, whom he helped to get rid of deformity.
Being an excellent teacher, about whom all the students spoke with warmth and gratitude, he believed that the main task of education was to teach to be a man.
P remember the song of the old woman Shapoklyak from the cartoon about the crocodile Gena: "You can't become famous for good deeds." Unfortunately, in the modern world, negative events and deeds are more interesting than good deeds. But the people from our article do good simply because they have a pure heart and this makes their souls happier. Do good no matter what!
About the victory of good
This story began when Glen James, a homeless man from Boston, found a backpack with a large amount of cash on the street. We were very lucky, but the man did not lose his head and handed over the find to the police so that the money would be returned to the owner. The owner of the backpack was so shocked by what happened that he organized a campaign to raise money for this person. At the moment, they have collected twice the amount found. Glen James, who lost his home and job eight years ago, said he wouldn't take a dime of what he found even if he were desperate.
Friendship + car = good
Many girls dream of a little black dress, but Chandler Lacefield has always dreamed of a big red car. But when her parents gave her a red jeep, she decided to sell her dream car in order to buy two: one for herself and the other for a friend from a poor family.
Welcome to the subway
The turnstile in the Canadian subway broke down, and none of the workers were there. This is what the passengers left at the entrance.
valuable note
Entrance of the house in Helsinki. The inscription reads: “20 euros. Found in the entrance between the 1st and 2nd floors on September 11 at 18.30.
Kindness in Russian
kind-hearted grandmother
Kolmyk grandmother knitted 300 pairs of warm socks for flood victims. As you know, there are no small good deeds, and once again we find confirmation of this in the wonderful news from Magadan. Local resident pensioner Rufina Ivanovna Korobeynikova knitted and donated to flood victims in Khabarovsk three hundred pairs of warm socks.
For several years, an elderly woman knitted about two thousand woolen products, which were donated to the pupils of the orphanage and the home for the disabled. Since things knitted by a merciful grandmother were usually handed over to those in need at Christmas, over time a very warm tradition of “woolen gifts” developed in local shelters, and Rufina Ivanovna was already knitting new socks for the upcoming holiday, when the flood began in Khabarovsk.
Rufina Ivanovna, having heard in the news about the tragedy associated with the flood, decided that now her “woolen gifts” are more important for the victims, because many people were left not only without housing, but also without clothes.
Thank you letter to dad
How much do you need to be happy?
farewell screensaver
The writers of The Simpsons said a touching farewell to late actress Marcia Wallance, who voiced Edna Krabapple. In the last screensaver for the cartoon, Bart is practicing spelling as usual, but this time the reason is sad. The inscription on the board: "We will miss you very much, Mrs. K."
Kim Kaelström comforts autistic boy
It takes place before the start of the match with the German national team. Little Max was scared of what was happening, and the football player supported him. Later, the boy's father wrote a touching letter of gratitude to Kim.
Pope Francis hugs a mutilated man
Many people love the new pope because he follows his motto and leads a modest lifestyle, refuses unnecessary honors and is really open to all ordinary people who need his support. For the first time in many years, this post was occupied by a person who is ready to share the sorrows of the world and console the weak.
The Scorpions singer sang the song "Holiday" to his fan on the phone
The Scorpions were on tour in Moscow. At this time, a message from the charity fund appeared on social networks that a fan of the group, who is in a Moscow hospice with a serious diagnosis, dreams of getting to their concert. During the day, the message gained several thousand reposts, and Klaus Meine, vocalist of the Scorpions, found a way out of the situation. If Alexey cannot attend the concert, he will hear his favorite band on the phone.
It is unlikely that anyone will argue that faith, hope and love are the basis of human life. Even the most inveterate and degraded criminal has at least one of these feelings alive somewhere in the depths of his soul: hope. For forgiveness, for a better life, for pardon, for reconciliation with oneself and God. And there, you see, not far from faith and love.
Sofia is a special case. Wisdom is not just given, and not to everyone - far from everyone needs it, for many it is much easier without this aggravating phenomenon. However, in the history of real women, the martyrs of Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia, this connection cannot be broken, these saints are always together.
Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia. Icon from the Vatopedi monastery
Their life is a story that is accepted by consciousness with incredible difficulty. And the point is not at all that our time somehow overestimates human life? or too skeptical about such a phenomenon as the Christian faith, or puts more material than spiritual values at the forefront. No, the description of such a short, but such a bright life of the three holy girls chills the blood with just this combination: a short life and a bright life in content. Only now the martyr's content was received, at the same time with the sophisticated fantasy of the tormentors and the immeasurable, incomprehensible human understanding and courage of the mother ...
In the 2nd century AD, from 117 to 138, Emperor Hadrian ruled in Rome, known not only for his state merits, but also for the fact that his lover was the young man Antinous, who drowned in the Nile River and was not only deified by Hadrian, but became the last god of the outgoing ancient pantheon. It was to this emperor that the denunciation from the Italian governor Antiochus arrived that the pious widow Sophia from Milan professes the Christian faith and brings up her three daughters according to the Christian commandments. The emperor became angry and summoned the family to Rome, not really hiding the ultimate goal of their journey.
Mother and daughters arrived at their destination - and all three girls, despite the fact that the youngest of them, Lyubov, was only 9 years old, and the eldest, Vera, had reached the age of 12, perfectly understood where they had arrived and what awaited them . At first, Emperor Hadrian was rather amiable and simply offered the arriving family to bow and honor the goddess of hunting, Artemis, dear to his heart. After a decisive refusal on the part of Sophia and her daughters, he offered rich gifts in exchange for this worship, but this did not bring success - however, it must be said, the emperor did not particularly count on consent. An attempt was made to separate the children from the mother and her influence - Faith, Hope and Love, on the orders of Adrian, were sent to one noble and famous pagan who tried to persuade the girls to renounce Christ either by persuasion, or caresses, or threats, or even religious disputes . Everything was unsuccessful: the maidens firmly stood their ground, their faith was deep and sincere and did not depend on whether their mother was next to them or not.
The pagan lowered her hands and the girls stood before Adrian again. Threats were used, but Faith, Hope and Love were adamant in their faith. Realizing that nothing could be achieved with words, the emperor ordered that the three girls be cruelly tortured in front of their mother. They were burned on a red-hot grate, lowered into a vat of boiling tar, thrown into a fiery furnace, but it was all in vain: the holy girls remained firm in their faith, and the Lord helped them to remain steadfast and miraculously kept them from death. The perverted fantasy of the tormentors extended far - for example, the youngest of the sisters, 9-year-old Love, was tied to a wheel and beaten with sticks until her body became one continuous bloody wound. The mother was forced to look at the torment of her daughters, but only words of support and praise to the Lord were heard from her lips. In front of Sophia's eyes, the tormentors, tired of fruitless efforts, beheaded the girls, but the spiritual joy of the mother was incomparable to anything: she understood that her daughters were worthy of a martyr's crown and the Kingdom of God.
Emperor Adrian understood perfectly well that the mother's heart still suffers, even with the strongest heavenly joy. To prolong the torment of a persistent woman, he ordered his servants to give her the bodies of her daughters, so that she herself would take care of their burial. Suffering Sophia loaded her dead girls into the ark and set off with her mournful burden outside the city, where she buried the holy bodies on a hill. After that, she spent two days next to their graves, mourning, rejoicing and praying to the Lord. On the third day He took her soul too.
The Church canonized the martyr girls as saints, glorifying their martyr mother along with them on the same day. Since 777, the relics of all four have been kept in the Alsatian church of Esho.
Modern realities change too much in the value system. Signs of the times are absolutely ardent feminism and most often unreasonable juvenile justice - something for which there is no place in this terrible, sometimes cruel, but happy story of faith, hope and love for every understanding Christian - that is, wisdom.
The most terrible, the most godless time did not renounce these three virtues. Yes, faith in God could be replaced by faith in a ruler, love could be given some macabre colors at times, and hope could be put on a pedestal of such height that it seemed to replace the two previous feelings. But even the most perverted consciousness understands that faith, hope and love are inalienable aspirations, needs and abilities of a person - and it doesn’t even matter if he believes in the presence of a soul or only in the triumph of reason. After all, that's what the main virtues are for. 
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