“ On the road of our approach to God stands the world– we must pass through the understanding of it. Every man has a mission connected with the world. Everyone must know it according to the power given to him, in as much as knowledge can’t come until the gaining of virtues; everyone must develop beforehand a moral activity of relationship to the world. A mainly negative attitude to the world frustrates salvation itself. The world is imposed on everyone as a stone for sharpening his spiritual faculties,”
St. Dumitru Staniloae (Orthodox Spirituality. St. Tikhon Seminary Press, pg. 205)
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