If He endured offenses and abuses, and terrible sufferings and the Life-giving Cross while being innocent, then even more so we must endure suffering, which we rightly deserve through our sin, without complaint

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In one word, each of us must crucify himself with Christ.

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Saint Tikhon of  Zadonsk

from the book:

Saint Tikhon of Moscow : Instructions and Teachings

for the American Orthodox Faithful (1898-1907)