Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on Theotic Journey - Orthodox (Isaiah 43:2)
"The journey through waters and fire is the journey of theosis—painful transformation into divine likeness. The fires purify; the waters cleanse. God accompanies through this cosmic baptism. We are not destroyed but transformed, emerging more fully human, more fully divine." — Metropolitan Kallistos Ware.
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