Jon LaFlamme

“We have a culture where people bow themselves before money, before food, before the flesh, before power, before almost anything but the things of God. Our hearts are thus poisoned, and our vision becomes clouded.” - Stephen Freeman

“The reduction of time to a literal, linear model has been among the most reductionist occurrences in the course of Christian history and has distorted the nature of our retelation with Christ perhaps more than any other occurrence, historic, ideological, or otherwise.” - Stephen Freeman

“to live in a world in which God is not everywhere present, or is present only in the most generalized fashion, is to live as a functional atheist.” - Stephen Freeman

“Being microcosm, man is also mediator. It is his God-given task to reconcile and harmonize the noetic and the material realms, to bring them to unity, to spiritualize the material, and to render manifest all the latent capacities of the created order.” - Kallistos Ware

“In God's heart and in his love, each one of us has always existed. From all eternity God saw each one of us as an idea or thought in his divine mind, and for each one from all eternity he has a special and distinctive plan.

We have always existed for him; creation signifies that at a certain point in time we begin to exist also for ourselves.” - Ka

“We should think, not of God the Manufacturer or God the Craftsman, but of God the Lover.” - Kallistos Ware

“The way to God lies through love of other people, and there is no other way.” - Mother Maria of Paris

“The purer the heart becomes, the larger it becomes” - St John of Kronstadt

"I cannot believe that it is possible for a man to be saved if he does not labor for the salvation of his neighbor.” - St John Chrysostom