THE BEAUTY AND THE TRUTH.

THE BEAUTY AND THE TRUTH

~ It seems to me that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be just as powerless as God Himself, which does not coerce but which calls and unveils the beauty and the truth of things without imposing them.

H.E. Metropolitan Anthony Bloom (1914-2003), bishop of the Diocese of Sourozh, the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain and Ireland;