Let us who are weak and passionate have the courage to offer our infirmity and natural weakness to Christ with unhesitating faith, and confess it to Him; and we shall be certain to obtain His help, even beyond our merit.
– St. John Climacus (John of the Ladder)
Featured image: The Ladder of Divine Ascent, fresco on the north wall of the Chapel of Sucevita Monastery in Romania. Painted by the brothers Ioan and Sofronie of Suceava in 1595. source