St. Anthony of Optina: You should be afraid not of cholera . . .
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“You should be afraid not of cholera, but of serious sins, for the scythe of death mows a person down like grass even without cholera. Therefore, place all your hope in the Lord God, without Whose will even the birds do not die, much less a person.”
+ St. Anthony of Optina,