"A Russian from the people - Orthodox - lives his faith as a service to the church, which was imposed on him for the salvation of someone's soul, but not his own soul, which he neither learned nor wanted to save. No matter how much you pray, the devil will still take his part. That is his whole theology.
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Vasily KlyuchevskyAll Translations
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A Russian from the people - Orthodox - lives his faith as a service to the church, which was imposed on him for the salvation of someone's soul, but not his own soul, which he neither learned nor wanted to save. No matter how much you pray, the devil will still take his part. That is his whole theology.
""Un rus din popor - ortodox - își trăiește credința ca pe un serviciu la biserică, care i-a fost impus pentru mântuirea sufletului cuiva, dar nu a propriului său suflet, pe care nici nu a învățat, și nici nu a vrut să-l mântuiască. Nu contează cât te rogi, dracul tot își va lua partea. Asta e toată teologia lui."