St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests …

- Olivier Clement

The kenosis of the Son reveals the mystery of God who is Love. This gift of life is an extension of a mysterious exchange at the heart of the Deity. …

- Olivier Clement

Prayer and Theology are inseparable. True Theology is the adoration offered by the intellect. The intellect clarifies the moment of prayer, but only …

- Olivier Clement

For every person is a gaping space waiting to be filled with God.

- Olivier Clement

People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But they ought …

- Olivier Clement

Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum.…

- Olivier Clement

It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, in which t…

- Olivier Clement