“Be careful my child not to let time pass fruitlessly and without improvement in your soul for death comes like a thief. Woe to us if it finds us in a state of sloth and laziness – then the mountains and hills will need to wait for us; then we shall be found empty of good works and Hades will shepherd us eternally!”
(Elder Ephraim of Arizona in ‘Counsels from the Holy Mountain’)

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