Some icons are miraculous because it so pleases God, but the power is not in the icons, or in the people turning to them, but in the mercy of God. (Theophan the Recluse)

Some icons are miraculous because it so pleases God, but the power is not in the icons, or in the people turning to them, but in the mercy of God.

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