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“Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.”
― Andrew Peterson

“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss

“Creation is not abandoned by God, it is not godless, for apart from God it would not be at all; it is not deprived of grace for it owes its existence to grace. Rather, creation is graced, it is holy; in creation God may be encountered.”
― Andrew Louth, Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology

“If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The ‘contemplation of nature’ can give spiritual flavour to our lives even if we lay no claim to be in any way ‘mystics’ in the rather particular sense that this word has acquired in the West. A little loving attention in the light of the Risen Christ is enough. The humblest objects then breathe out their secret. The person becomes the priest of the world at the altar of his heart, celebrating that ‘cosmic liturgy’ of which Maximus the Confessor speaks.”
― Olivier Clément, The Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from the Patristic Era with Commentary