“Come, wretched soul, with your flesh, confess to the Creator of all. In the future refrain from you former brutishness, and offer to God tears of repentance.”
– Saint Andrew of Crete
(The Great Canon)
“Come, wretched soul, with your flesh, confess to the Creator of all. In the future refrain from you former brutishness, and offer to God tears of repentance.”
– Saint Andrew of Crete
(The Great Canon)
“Do not despair…Had you not lived piously and endeavored to become united to God, the enemy would not have attacked and tormented you.”
– Saint John of Kronstadt
(from My Life in Christ)