There is only one important thing left: the fact that people have not completely learned how to meet God, themselves or their peers. We don’t know how to meet each other. There is a barrier between us and God, between us and creation. We are deaf, blind, and senseless. But most of all we are scared, we fear to meet others because meeting someone means meeting once and for all. Meeting people puts pressure and responsibilities under our shoulders.

(Translation from Antonie Bloom, Mitropolitul Surojului, Despre întâlnirea cu Dumnezeu, Editura Cathisma, București, 2007)