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“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Power of the Name: The Jesus Prayer in Orthodox Spirituality

“In our spiritual vision we are not only to see each thing in sharp relief, standing out in all the brilliance of its specific being, but we are also to see each thing as transparent: in and through each created thing we are to discern the Creator.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“We do not have any genuine knowledge of those whom we hate.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“If there is a “problem of evil”, there is also a “problem of good.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“To know a person is far more than to know facts about that person. To know a person is essentially to love him or her; there can be no true awareness of other persons without mutual love. We do not have any genuine knowledge of those whom we hate.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way