"I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature a…"

"When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to put my fo…"

"I am not a Jacob wrestling with God, but a Job lying on his dung-hill. I have assimilated Western thought and its cla…"

"If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey. As for teaching the Catechism, the Ca…"

"My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love of my count…"

"The true messianism of the Russian Church is not what the Slavophiles have imagined, but it is the example of sufferi…"

"If you enjoy watching birds, you stand in good company. There are, in the estimate of the National Survey on Recreati…"

"Birds become more and more fascinating, not less, the more you watch them."

"It is a fun exercise among s to try to pinpoint a childhood moment when they deviated from the path of “ordinary” peo…"

"But since it was birders he was dealing with, there wasn’t any harm just letting us in on the honor system. There was…"