Idoloclast No. 1 | Orthodox Christian Cotton Tank TopAvoid making idols either of things or of practices. + St. Macarius of Optina Asceticism is what keeps the "blameless passions" (hunger, the need for sleep, the desire for communion with people, etc.) from becoming blameworthy (gluttony, sloth, lust, etc.). Fr. Stephen De Young, Lord of Spirits: "Samsonite" These eight passions should be destroyed as follows: gluttony by self control unchastity [lust] by desire for God and longing for the blessings

The veneration of the holy martyr in the Russian Orthodox Church was already known in the twelfth century

This must be understood not of money only

From death to life

according to the word of the holy man: My soul sticks close behind Thee

- Ezekiel 37:1-14

The aim of ordinary worldly people is to acquire or make money

But the praise of Heaven is eternal

Herman of Alaska

the Elder took him up to the roof of his cell

How have we been delivered to corruption

that serpent of old

the moon beneath her feet