Bartholomew I of Constantinople
Encountering the Mystery.Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today2008
Spiritual life requires proper veneration -and not an absolute worship- of the creation of God. Our relationship with…
Spiritual life requires proper veneration -and not an absolute worship- of the creation of God. Our relationship with…
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of…
In the mystery of eternity, the experience of a bliss, even a passing one, extends to all human…
The initial step for a soul to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of…
God has given us the book of nature, but we have not read it. Nature is deeply buried…
While sight was unconsumed, and, in that depth, saw in one volume clas’d of love, whatever the univers…
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity. Joy is in the plenitude of reality. The desire for light…
When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is…
Ask the beauty of the earth; ask the beauty of the sea, ask the beauty of dilated and…