Idoloclast Idol-Smasher | Jesus NIKA Fist w/ Sledgehammer on Red Background | Smash Your Passions | Orthodox Christian Long Sleeve ShirtAvoid making idols either of things or of practices. + St. Macarius of Optina The passions are uprooted by keeping the commandments. + St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love, 2. 31 You cannot pass a day tranquilly unless you mortify the passions. + St John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 26: On Discernment He who has conquered the passions has conquered nature, but he who is conquered by the passions is a slave, even if he

ye wander as in the night

indivisible and unconfused

We make mention also of the seraphim

all ye stars and light

” The enraged Maximian ordered the soldiers to stab with the sword anyone who glorified Christ

Finding you faithful over a few things

Sophrony of Essex

Christ before me

O Ye people

The Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken

- John 3:14-16 (KJV)

But at the sounds of the trump all the dead as in an earthquake shall rise up again to meet Thee