We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans... In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the Creator in us. — 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 whole creation Takes me within himself and hides me in his arms, And then I find myself outside the whole world. I, a frail, small mortal in the world, Behold the Creator of the world, all… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share
“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 to man's sin, but also and more fundamentally as an act of love, an expression of God's own nature. Even had there been no fall, God in his own limitless, outgoing love would still have chosen… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share
Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment love the trees. Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. When… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share
“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 not only spiritual gifts, but material gifts as well. Even our last shirt, our last piece of bread must be given to them. Personal almsgiving and the most wide-ranging social work are equally justifiable and necessary.… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share
“Love and hatred are not merely subjective feelings, affecting the inward universe of those who experience them, but they are also objective forces, altering the world outside ourselves...if this is true of my love, it is true to an incomparably greater extent of Christ's love. The victory of his suffering love upon the Cross does not merely set me an… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share
“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
