Jon LaFlamme

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

Gods ineffable greatness with the human mind."

• St Basil

“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

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