This is an unsorted file of quotations from saints and other Orthodox Christian sources.
Most men are like shaving of wood curled around their central emptiness.
And you stand confused over choice of floor covering. Only the life of the eucharistic body of the parish can give flesh to the formal idea of the 'priestly' character of politics, the prophetic character of science, the philanthropic character of economics and the mystical character of the family. Without the parish, all this is theory, naive idealism and a romantic utopia. Within the parish it becomes a historical reality, an immediate possibility and a concrete experience. You are a hopeless lot.