Idoloclast Idol-Smasher | Jesus NIKA Fist w/ Sledgehammer on Red Background | Smash Your Passions | Orthodox Christian Tank TopAvoid 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

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul

Which dims the moon and graves

and said unto him

Then she recognized the Lord’s voice

asking Him to cure the king's leprosy

and fall headlong

"I am crucified with Christ"

author of the book of the same name

3 For I know mine iniquity

nevertheless

they need no light of lamp or sun

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