
Sunflower
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- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Editor's Preface
- Part I
- 1. Discerning the Will of God and Conforming to It
- 2. Why Does God Allow Evil?
- 3. How to Recognize God's Will in His Inscrutable Judgments
- 4. How to Determine God's Will in All Events and Actions
- 5. How God's Will Is Revealed in Jesus Christ, and How We Can Conform Ourselves to It
- Part II
- 6. On Completely Committing One's Life, Will, and Works to the Will of God
- 7. How Can Human Will Become Pleasing and Worthy of Union with God's Will?
- 8. How Human Will Can Conform to Divine Will in Various Everyday Circumstances
- 9. On the Meaning and Significance of the Prayer "Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven," and with What Spiritual Disposition One Must Utter These Words
- 10. Which Signs Indicate That Our Will Agrees with God's Will?
- Part III
- 11. The Peace of Soul That Comes from Following God's Will
- 12. Is It Possible to Avoid Sorrow Entirely?
- 13. Fashioning One's Will to God's Is a Pleasing Sacrifice to God
- 14. Human Perfection Is Contingent on the Coordination between One's Desires and Actions and God's Will as Revealed in the Law or in One's Own Life
- 15. Conforming the Human Will with the Will of God Is the Greatest Good in Life
- 16. The Agreement of the Human Will with the Divine Is Truly Heaven on Earth, the Only Genuine Blessedness in Life
- Part IV
- 17. What Prevents Us from Living According to God's Will
- 18. The Dangers of Irrational, Unrestrained, and Deeply Rooted Self-Will
- 19. How Our Will Can Become Obedient to the Will of God in All Things, Even in That Which We Do Not Desire
- 20. An Instructive Example for People Who Refuse to Follow God's Direction
- 21. Factors That Incline Us to Disobey God
- 22. We Must Be Ready to Reject Ourselves and Submit Our Will to God Both during Times of Trouble and in the Hour of Our Death
- Part V
- 23. The Agreement between Human and Divine Will Cannot Occur without Complete Trust in God
- 24. The Essence of Trust in God
- 25. By What Means We Can Confirm within Ourselves a Firm Trust in God, Especially in Times of Trouble?
- 26. How the Saints Trusted God
- 27. The Many and Diverse Gifts That God Gives to Those Who Trust in Him
- 28. Trust in God Weakens and Dies without Acknowledgment of His Providence
- 29. How Greatly God Provides for All Our Needs in Life
- 30. God's Providence for the Righteous
- 31. God's Providence for Friends and Enemies
- 32. Concerning Widespread Doubt or Weak Faith in God
- 33. Knowledge of God's Providence Leads to Greater Trust in God, and This Trust Gives Birth to Agreement with God and His Holy Will
- Appendix: A Short Biography of the author of The Sunflower, St John Maximovich, Archbishop of Chernigov and Metropolitan of Tobolsk
- Notes
- Subject Index
- Scripture Index
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