“God's Incarnation opens the way to man's deification. To be deified is, more specifically, to be “christified”: the divine likeness that we are called to attain is the likeness of Christ. It is through Jesus the God-man that we men… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“According to his divine nature Christ is “one in essence” (homoousios) with God the Father; according to his human nature he is homoousios with us men. According” — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness,… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“I know that the Immovable comes down; I know that the Invisible appears to me; I know that he who is far outside the… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“the ultimate purpose of the spiritual Way is not just a person who says prayers from time to time, but a person who is… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“St Isaac urges, God's taking of our humanity is to be understood not only as an act of restoration, not only as a response… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“The Christian God is not just a unit but a union, not just unity but community. There” — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“The bodies of our fellow human beings must be treated with more care than our own. Christian love teaches us to give our brethren… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“Love and hatred are not merely subjective feelings, affecting the inward universe of those who experience them, but they are also objective forces, altering… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“Our faith in the Trinity puts us under an obligation to struggle at every level, from the strictly personal to the highly organized, against… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“But in the end the least misleading ikon is to be found, not in the physical world outside us, but in the human heart.… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
