Christian Discourses

Structure

• Part One - The Cares of the Pagans
• * The Care of Poverty.
• * The Care of Abundance.
• * The Care of Lowliness.
• * The Care of Loftiness.
• * The Care of Presumptiousness.
• * The Care of Self-Torment.
• * The Care of Indecesiveness, Vacillation, and Disconsolateness.
• Part Two - States of Mind in the Strife of Suffering
• * The Joy of it: That One Suffers Only Once But Is Victorious Eternally.
• * The Joy of it: That Hardship Does Not Take Away But Procures Hope.
• * The Joy of it: That the Poorer You Become the Richer You Are Able to Make Others.
• * The Joy of it: That the Weaker You Become the Stronger God Becomes in You.
• * The Joy of it: That What You Lose Temporally You Gain Eternally.
• * The Joy of it: That When I "Gain Everything" I Lose Nothing at All.
• * The Joy of it: That Adversity is Prosperity.
• Part Three - Thoughts that Wound from Behind
• * Watch Your Step When You Go to the House of the Lord.
• * "See, We Have Left Everything and Followed You; What Shall We Have?"
• * All Things Must Serve Us for Good - When We Love God.
• * There Will Be the Resurrection of the Dead, of the Righteous-and of the Unrighteous..
• * We are Closer to Salvation Now-Than When We Became Believers..
• * But It Is Blessed-to Suffer Mockery for a Good Cause.
• * He Was Believed in the World.
• Part Four - Discourses at the Communion on Fridays
• * Luke 22:15
• * Matthew 11:28
• * John 10:27
• * I Corinthians 11:23
• * II Timothy 2:12f
• * I John 3:20
• * Luke 24:51

In English

• Christian Discourses; The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress, edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton University Press