"Prayer is a state of continual gratitude. "

-St. John of Krondstadt



"If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself. "

-Bishop Kallistos Ware (The Orthodox Way)



Man is not so much logical as he is eucharistic. He sees the world as God's gift, as a sacrament of God's presence and a means of communion with Him. He offers the world back to God in thanksgiving.



"Thine own from thine own we offer to thee, in all and for all"

-from The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom