Quotations

“God planted the garden in Eden, in the East.” – St. Symeon the New Theologian

“God as being, existence itself and goodness itself and wisdom itself – or to speak more truly, above all these – has altogether no opposite…” – St. Maximus the Confessor

“Since an ‘idle word’ is not just one which is unprofitable, but equally one which is spoken or written ‘before we practice it and gain knowledge of it from experience.” – – Anestis Keselopoulos, Man and the Environment (citing St. Symeon, Ethical Discourses)

“The oppressive and tyrranical control which man feels from material goods is due to the effort he makes, whether consciously or unconsciously, to make them autonomous from their Creator.”- Anestis Keselopoulos, Man and the Environment

(of ikons): “The fact that man, as the crown of creation, is always put in the foreground while the rest of creation is arranged as a background, not only shows mand’s dominant position in creation, but also the responsibility he has for rightly coexisting with it properly.”- Anestis Keselopoulos, Man and the Environment

“St. Symeon notes man’s tendency to tyrranize his social and his natural environment.” – Anestis Keselopoulos, Man and the Environment

“The Transfiguration is a consummate affirmation of the worth of the sensible and of matter.”- Anestis Keselopoulos, Man and the Environment

“Every created thing presupposes God’s love.” – Anestis Keselopoulos, Man and the Environment

“The Fall consists in making matter and the world autonomous” – Anestis Keselopoulos, Man and the Environment

“The icon… heralds the restoration to creation of its true order.” – Anestis Keselopoulos, Man and the Environment

“For Thou being God uncircumscribed, without beginning and beyond speech…” – from the Blessing of Water for Holy Baptism