Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.[Деток любите особенно, ибо они тоже безгрешны, яко ангелы, и живут для умиления нашего, для очищения сердец наших и как некое указание нам.]
Source:Part II, Book VI. The Russian Monk, Chapter III. Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
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