"But with the Holy Spirit..."

Without the Holy Spirit:

God is far away

Christ stays in the past

The Gospel is a dead letter

The Church is simply an organization

Authority a matter of domination

Mission a matter of propaganda

Liturgy is no more than an evocation

Christian living a slave morality.

But with the Holy Spirit--
The cosmos is resurrected and groans
with the birth-pangs of the Kingdom:

The risen Christ is there,

The Gospel is the power of life,

The Church shows forth the life of the Trinity,

Authority is a liberating service,

Mission is a Pentecost,

The liturgy is both memorial and anticipation,

Human action is deified.

Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazim)
of the Antiochian Orthodox Church