start thinking on your own

.... But how do we understand the fact that one priest nearly curses the women who dared to enter a church without a headscarf and in pants while the other one does not see a tragedy in that? How do we explain the fact that one priest nearly anathematizes the modern culture and the other one merely puts the facts of modern culture under scrutiny? What shall we do when one says one thing, the other one says another thing? And no matter how strange it sounds there is an answer to all these questions. You should start thinking on your own. The period when we wait for the ready answers is surely the one we all come through. But when we start not just waiting for the ready answers, but looking for the truth we lay the foundation (not without mistakes though) of the main thing for every Christian – for holiness. And the holiness is acquired only through labor. The saints are those who can independently follow the path about which Christ spoke (John 14:6) And if we want to follow then we have to start learning on our own. Antitheses always exist in the Church. On the one hand we have to trust its experience, on the other hand we have to learn how to recognize on our own the real experience of Church as opposed to its imitation. And only those who make efforts will gain the experience. And we can make only our own efforts and God will help and show us which way we shall behave.

- from The Course of Forbearance for the Orthodox Christian by Archpriest Dimiriy Karpenko (Translated by Ekaterina Lebed)
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