Author: Frantz Rimpel

March 6 Love of God is love in itself; it is love for the sake of love. This kind of love is the highest blessing. It does not allow the slightest possibility of treating even a single creature without love; if there is even one person whom you do not love, then you lose God’s… Continue reading Real love

March 5  Just as it’s folly to try to lift yourself into the air, you should not praise yourself too much. When you praise yourself, you produce the opposite effect in others, and appear lower in their eyes.  If you want other people to speak well of you, do not speak well of yourself –… Continue reading The reward of humility

March 4 Eating to excess is a vice just as bad as many others. We often do not notice it in others, because most of us are subject to it.  There are sins against others, and sins against yourself. You commit sins against others when you do not God’s spirit in them; you commit sins… Continue reading Gluttony is a big sin

March 3 What reward should a good deed bring you? Only the joy you receive by performing it. And any other reward you receive lesens the feeling of this joy.  He who does good to others makes the biggest gift to himself – LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA  A saint prayed to God in the following way:… Continue reading Do everything for God sake

March 2  The more closely a person unites with the will will of God, the firmer this person becomes in his actions. When a traveler starts on a trip along a road under the threat of robbers, he does not go alone he waits for a friend, someone to be his escort, and then follows… Continue reading How to follow the will of God

March 1 The fear of death in man is the understanding of his sins.  The more spiritual a life a person leads, the less he is afraid of death. For a spiritual person death means setting the spirit free from the body. Such a person knows that the things with which he lives cannot be… Continue reading Why be afraid of death?

26 février Après une longue conversation, arrêtez-vous et essayez de vous rappeler ce dont vous venez de parler. Ne soyez pas surpris si beaucoup de choses, parfois même tout ce dont vous avez parlé, étaient vides de sens, vides et triviales, et parfois même mauvaises. Une personne stupide devrait garder le silence. Mais s’il le… Continue reading Silence is golden

February 25  To pray is to accept and to remember the laws of the limitless being, God, and to measure all your deeds -past, present and future-according to His laws . Before you start praying, ask yourself whether at that moment you can concentrate; otherwise, do not pray at all Those who make a habit… Continue reading Why pray? Is it necessary?

February 24  For a truth to be heard, it must be spoken with kindness. Truth is kind only when it is spoken through your heart with sincerity. You should know that when a message you convey to another person is not understood by him, at least one of the following things is true: what you… Continue reading Real truth

February 23  The existing design of life corresponds neither to requirements of conscience nor to the requirements of intellect.  Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking the corn they need and using it as they need it, start to collect all they can into one… Continue reading How to understand human behavior toward humanity.