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“Wild brambles in the heart cannot be uprooted without the pruning shears of the heavenly Gardener, and the good fruit of truth and righteousness will not grow without the rain of tears and sorrows.”

— Hieromartyr John of Riga

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pregnant with the truth

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Abandoned church in the district of Suzdal [700x1056]

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Whenever I stop praying, the amazing coincidences stop happening.

Bishop Basil (Rodzianko)

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it often happens while i’m walking down the street, that i’ll see a young, beautiful person turn old as they approach me. sometimes it’s the opposite. did they notice themselves? time. i think about this old man somebody saw on the street today. i wonder, as i look in the mirror, if i’ll notice him too

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not the type to die

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i can’t trust people that smile on command

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The spiritual life is the only real life; everything else is material. Our body’s material, dust borrowed from the earth. The spiritual life is our unceasing effort to become worthy of the divine breath which is within us.

St. Nicholas Velimirovich

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