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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
There are four categories of God's workers, that is, four ways of doing the deeds of life, like categories of workers who work for the master. The first category are workers who invent ways to please their master outside of working hours and therefore allow themselves not to do their assigned work. They represent the various religious doctrines with dogmas of faith and atonement, mysteries, prayers, etc. The second category are workers who, instead of working, waste all their strength sharpening, cleaning, protecting the tools of work, and work less and less because they are busy taking care of the tools and because they are afraid of damaging them. These are the people who, instead of consuming their bodily forces for God's work, take care of their bodies to preserve them as long as they can. The third category are the workers who do not know the master and do not want to know either him or the thing entrusted to them, but do a job that they have invented and that they consider the most important for them. These are the people who do not recognize that there is an obligatory moral principle, they do not recognize God, and therefore they invent all kinds of concerns alien to God, political, scientific or so-called cultural concerns. The fourth category are those who devote all the powers of soul and body to the fulfillment of God's work: the increase in oneself, and through this also in others, of God's consciousness, of love expressed through deeds, words, thoughts.