Jon LaFlamme

“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

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

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi

"It is easier to measure the entire sea with a tiny cup than to grasp

Gods ineffable greatness with the human mind."

• St Basil

“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

“Self-love is hell; for, carried to its ultimate conclusion, self-love signifies the end of all joy and all meaning. Hell is not other people; hell is myself, cut off from others in self-centeredness.”

- Kallistos Ware

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

“There is an integral connection betweer

our love for one another and our faith in the Trinity: the first is a precondition for the second, and in its turn the second gives full strength and meaning to the first.” - Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way