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“Noted American Orthodox theologian Alexander Schmemann maintained that God desires that we approach all aspects of life sacramentally. That is, there is nothing that God created that is inherently secular. The destiny of everything in this world is achieved when we recognize its capacity to connect us mystically with God.”
― Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World
― Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World
“He (Bresnahan-a potter interviewed in the book) described a recent trip to China. In every city he visited, he witnessed alarmingly high levels of inhumanity, pollution, and industrial development 'without any stepping back and saying, "How did we get here?" and "Where are we going?" He described what he witnessed in China as the turning from the 'propaganda of communism to the propaganda of absolute consumerism with not even skipping a beat.”
― Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World
― Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World
“Brother Stavros related a conversation that had occurred shortly after the 9/11 tragedy. He had traveled to Albany airport to pick up a prospective new member of the community....The man asked him if he didn't think that we were coming to, since 9/11, a huge conflict, a cultural conflict...he characterized Islam as representing violence, and Christianity as peace...But beyond that, what most frightened Brother Stavros was the man's 'absolute certainty' of what God would do, a trait mirrored in Osama bin Laden and radical Islam. Fundamentalism, it seems, is fundamentalism, wherever it is found. 'People get seduced by their absolutism, and absolutism then feeds on power, and then power, of course, leads to violence.”
― Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World
― Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World
“There was no way to get around the fact that Jesus makes a very unnatural demand on His followers. He asks us to remain forever turned toward the Other, to seeing my worst enemy as my neighbor.”
― Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World
― Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World
“I thought, too, of Thomas Merton's description of hell, where 'no one has anything in common with anybody else except the fact that they all hate one another and cannot get away from one another and themselves.”
― Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World
― Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World
