“There are three things I cannot take in: nondogmatic faith, nonecclesiological Christianity and nonascetic Christianity. These three - the church, dogma, and asceticism - constitute one single life for me.”

— Sophrony (Sakharov)

Letter to D. Balfour, August 21, 1945.
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