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# The Lord does not require you to stop eating, drinking and sleeping, or to give all your property to the poor
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/gospod-ne-trebuet-ot-tebia-chtoby-ty-ne-el-ne-pil-ne-spal-vse-imenie-nishchim-razdaval/
- Published: 2025-09-28T20:15:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:34.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Mores

> The Lord does not require you to stop eating, drinking and sleeping, or to give all your property to the poor. Do what you ought: if you are a wife, be a normal wife; if you are a father, be a normal father; if you are a son, be a normal son. If you work at a job, be a normal worker, not a very good one, just a normal one: do not steal, do not be rude to your superior, be conscientious, and you will already possess the greatest glory in heaven. By the standards of our times, against a background of complete spiritual impoverishment, that alone will be splendid; it will be a great sapphire, a precious jewel.

Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov