"We need to bridle ourselves and think about how we will leave this life, which ladder we will ascend, how time is passing, and how we must prepare ourselves well. We must entreat Christ to grant us patience."
Gerondissa Makrina (Vassopoulou) (contemporary)
Words of the Heart, p. 114.
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