Kallistos Ware Quotes

We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.

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• Time
• Heart
• Space

The circle of divine love has not remained closed.

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It is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.

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• Thanksgiving

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.

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• God
• Knowledge
• Question

The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory

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• Power
• Fire

The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another.

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• Real
• True
• Communication

We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans... In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the Creator in us.

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• Life
• God
• Energy

Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.

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• Jesus

As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.

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• Value

The doors of Hell, insofar as they have locks, have locks on the inside.

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Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.

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• True
• Faith