“The devout person will especially venerate the holy Icons. And when we say, “He will venerate the holy Icons” we mean he venerates the person depicted on the Icon. When someone has a picture of his father, his mother, his grandfather or grandmother, his brother, he cannot possibly tear it or step on it. How much more must we venerate the Icons of the Saints. Jehovah’s Witnesses have no icons. The honor we show to the Icons they consider to be idolatry. I asked one of them once, “Don’t you have photographs in your homes?” “Yes, we do,” he said. “Well then, does a mother kiss the photograph of her child, when that child is far away?” “Yes, she does,” he said. “Does she kiss the paper of the photograph or her child?” I asked and he replied, “She kisses her child.” “Well then, just as she kisses her child when she kisses his photograph, we kiss Christ when we kiss His Icon; we don’t kiss the paper or the wood.””

– ‘Spiritual Awakening’