Archbishop John (Shakhovskoy)
Prince Dmitry Alexeevich Shakhovskoy
(August 23 [September 5], 1902, Moscow - May 30, 1989, Santa Barbara, California, USA) - Bishop of the Orthodox Church in America, Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America. Preacher, writer, poet.
Rector of St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary. Author of numerous religious works, some of which have been published in translation in English, German, Serbian, Italian and Japanese.
The moral character of an adult person is what he has made and makes of himself.
The soul is the earth. Man is the tiller of his soul. If the word of God, the word of Christ’s truth and love, is sown in the soil of the soul, the fruit will be sweet and joyful for the person himself and for those around him. But if a person sows weeds of evil in his soul, then poisonous, wild plants of the spirit will grow, which will torment both the person and others.
The soul can also be likened to clay, and man to a sculptor.
The sculptor molds from clay the human form.
Likewise, a man fashions from his soul’s qualities and abilities either a human image or a beastly one.
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