Die Salvifically No. 1 | Orthodox Christian Hoodie / Hooded Sweatshirt

“‘You cannot serve God and mammon,’ said the Lord to fallen man, revealing before humanity that state into which he had been led by the fall. In a similar way, a doctor reveals to the patient his physical state, into which his disease has led him, and which the sick man himself cannot understand. As a result of our spiritual disease, we need timely self-renunciation and rejection of the world for our salvation. ‘No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.’

“Experience continually confirms the justice of that outlook on the moral sickness of mankind, which the all holy physician expressed in the mentioned quote, spoken with decisive straightforwardness - indulging sinful and vain desires always leads to obsession with them, and after the obsession comes slavery, which is death to everything spiritual. Those who allowed themselves to follow their desires and carnal mind became obsessed with them, enslaved by them, forgot God and eternity, and wasted their earthly lives pointlessly, dying an eternal death.”

- St Ignatius Brianchaninov, The Field