Nor is the True Christian frustrated by the Divine potential that we partly realize here on earth and only fully know in the next life. What the ecumenist feels is that impatient frustration which befalls anyone who usurps the Providence of God, who anticipates that which is not yet his to have, and who fails to accept without passion that which he does not yet know. We humans have not divided the Church of God. It cannot be divided. We have divided one from another.
Ecumenism is an insidious demon.
Those whom it enslaves it makes it own, taking their minds and souls. Those whom it only afflicts , it makes spiritually mad, blackening their virtue, blinding even the brilliant, distorting perception, and creating, in the place of loving acceptance and fidelity to the Faith, a demanding sense of worldly immediacy. Orthodox Tradition , Vol.