Christiana sum. Christiani nihil a me alienum puto

Let us face this acute question with all seriousness, for an apostate is not only the person who denies the existence of God, a heathen is not only the one who brushes aside Christ as his God and Saviour. We can be the heretics, the disrupters and tramplers of faith if our lives in no way bear witness that the God of love has fired our souls with a new love, not of this earth, that He has taught us to love in a way that cannot be learned in the world, that can only be learned of God.(Anthony of Sourozh)

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God is love(...) the love that gave itself to complete destruction, without defence, in order to save us. But do we at all resemble the God in whom we believe?(Anthony of Sourozh)

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Let us commend ourselves, and one another, and all our life to Christ, our God’. Usually we think of it as though we were saying, 'Let us look to Him for safety, let us put our lives in His care, let us abandon ourselves to Him counting on Him to save us from all adversity' — this is not what it means; it means that generously, courageously, whole-heartedly, by an act of will that transcends our very will to do good and our proclivity towards evil, we say to Christ, 'I don't want to live my life — I want to live Yours! (Anthony of Sourozh)

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Christ also gives us commandments, but they have another quality.(...) Because it is not in the doing but in the becoming, that lies the mystery of salvation, the mystery of freedom and of the Gospel.(Anthony of Sourozh)