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

With the obedience and loyalty of a dutiful servant to his Master and God

to be hung upon the Cross as if He were an evil-doer

It is up to us

If I may but touch his garment

the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God

with all the hosts of Heaven

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And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel

do not trust the flesh

So then let us not sleep

declare plainly that they seek a country

“We who are stamped with the seal of Thy wood