Stained Glass Cross Design No. 1 | Orthodox Christian Canvas ArtGod does not create a cross for man. No matter how heavy a cross a man may carry in life, it is still just wood, from which man himself made, and it always grows from the soil of his heart. Elder Ambrose of Optina

- Akathist to Archangel Michael

let him entreat the Lord to deliver us from the affliction which will come upon the earth

not so much as a fragment of it remains nor a hope of returning

Elder Sophrony

`Far be it from me that I should

in the prayers of the Patriarchs

and pre-exists the body

For God to help

and there I will store all my crops and my goods

О Good One

Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future

And when we say a desire to struggle