Third Sunday after Epiphany

‘”Remember always, young man,” Father Paissy began, without preface, “that science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of the world have nothing left of all that was sacred. But they have [...]

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Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

‘”I love mankind,” he said, “but I am amazed at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons.”‘

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

‘To die for any old invisible other is the very reverse of valuing otherness, because otherness must involve not just [...]

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Seventh Sunday in Easter

‘Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers — and never succeeding.’
- Marc Chagall

‘Beauty will save the world.’
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

‘My conceits will never serve to wake the dead. Art has no limit but that. You may come enchantingly close, and you may wither under the power of [...]

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