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

And one cried unto another and said

in the grave whither thou goest

from the malice of the invisible foe

Father Duane was presented with the Matthew 25:36 Award for his lifetime achievement in prison ministry

and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God

anger - by goodwill and love for all men

a day of wrath is that day

nor children their parents

whereby our nature

But Jesus turned him about

’ ‘Honor your father and your mother

But if we walk in the light