🌟☦️🙏 Icon of St. Gavriel Urgebadze. Moscow, he's very much loved there.

🌟☦️🔥 Let yourself die while striving, rather than living in laziness. For those who die while trying to keep the commandments are just as much martyrs as those who died for Christ’s sake.
St. Maximos the Confessor

☦️🔥 "Mighty servants of the Only Omnipotent", Angels (in St. Ephraim writings). They're strong in their fiery nature and deep mind. But their sharply hate sin. When we sin, it causes aversion in them. When the person insults God too much, the Angel goes away, it leaves the poor human in hands of demons. It's called the fall, typically associated with mortal sins. The fear of God must awake with human mind in the very second of awakening in the morning. Even a little amount of carelessness leads to death, the fathers teach.

Saint Justin Popovich about significance of the lives of the Saints.
“What are the "Lives of the Saints"? They are nothing else but a certain kind of continuation of the "Acts of the Apostles." In them is found the same Gospel, the same life, the same truth, the same righteousness, the same love, the same faith, the same eternity, the same "power from on high," the same God and Lord. For "the Lord Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever" (Heb. 13: 8): the same for all people of all times, distributing the same gifts and the same Divine energies to all who believe in Him. This continuation of all life-creating Divine energies in the Church of Christ from ages to ages and from generation to generation indeed constitutes living Holy Tradition. This Holy Tradition is continued without interruption as the life of Grace in all Christians, in whom through the holy mysteries and the holy virtues, Jesus Christ lives by His Grace.”
From Introduction to the Lives of the Saints by Saint Justin Popovich

Judging others we often forget how sinful we are. It happens that we see in other people what we don’t see in ourselves. When we want to judge, the first thing to do is to look in the mirror and ask yourself, “what about me?”.
“Call to remembrance oftener that the evil lies in yourself and not in other people. By such a conviction, which is a perfectly true one, you will protect yourself from many sins and passions. Our greatest misfortune lies in the fact that we ascribe our own evil to another.”
St. John of Kronstadt

A Ukrainian Orthodox speaks about her experience after pilgrimage to holy places of Russia.

A classic set of icons on the church wall. Fr. Roman serves in the Far East of Russia. The Saint in the big icon "with Life" (s zhytiyem") is St. Sergey of Radonezh. The towering hesychast is so great before God that he's known in all the corners of the planet. Founder of Google bears his name (Sergey).

"Beware of passionate attachments to the world. Although they deceive you with peace and comfort, they are so fleeting that you do not notice how you are deprived of them, and in their place come sorrow, longing, despondency, and no comfort whatsoever.” Saint Leonid of Optina
Does it mean to live without any things , comfort, etc? No, but spiritual things should be in the first place. It is important to understand and be ready that we may lose everything any moment. We should develop in ourselves virtues of moderation and self-restraint, especially in nowadays consumer culture which makes us confuse personal happiness with purchasing material possessions and consumption...

☦️ Live as the saints lived: by their prayers, wisdom, and virtues; in meekness, humility, and gentleness, not sparing yourself, but renouncing yourself, your rest, ease and enjoyment, for the love of God and your neighbor, in patience, courage and struggle — have their faith, hope and love.
St John of Kronstadt

🌟☦️ One more temple will be built in Russia, the present view of the construction site.

🌟☦️🙏 Icon in the left, holy glorious Mary Magdalene is recognizable even in dim light. In the Russian parish in the capital of Romania.

🌟🙏🔥 Unite your soul to God by means of hearty faith and you will be able to accomplish everything. Do powerful, invisible, ever-watchful enemies wage war against you? You will conquer them. Are these enemies visible, outward? You will conquer them also. Do passions rend you? You will overcome them. Are you crushed with sorrows? You will get over them. Have you fallen into despondency? You will obtain courage. With faith you will be able to conquer everything, and even the Kingdom of Heaven will be yours.
St John of Kronstadt

St. Ignatius Brianchaninov teaches about importance of Jesus prayer in our spiritual life

“The name of our Lord Jesus Christ is a divine name. The power and effect of that name are divine, omnipotent and salvific, and transcend our ability to comprehend it. With faith therefore, with confidence and sincerity, and with great piety and fear ought we to proceed to the doing of the great work which God has entrusted to us: to train ourselves in prayer by using the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
“The incessant invocation of God’s name,” says Barsanuphius the Great, “is a medicine which mortifies not just the passions, but even their influence. Just as the physician puts medications or dressings on a wound that it might be healed, without the patient even knowing the manner of their operation, so also the name of God, when we invoke it, moritifes all passions, though we do not know how that happens”

There is very insidious and deceptive sin which is able to spoil a soul and produce many other sins. We should be watchful to ourselves, as it is very frequent thing. We talk about self-pity. Saint Theophan the Recluse explains :

“If self pity has been aroused in you, or a feeling of how good you are, hasten to sober yourself up and banish this whim with some kind of strictness and discipline to yourself, especially by making clear a sound idea of the insignificance of whatever comes into your head. A chance or intentional belittlement or humbling in this case would be like water poured on fire.”