"The saint prays and receives the creation of God with hospitality. The [crusading] missionary preaches and offers, often aggressively, in order to give...The world, however, is healed and transfigured more by the praying saint than by the thundering preachers. It is the saint, who manifesting God's tender love and receiving all creatures in divine hospitality, is genuinely sensitive to the riches of other religions, to different cultures, to 'all sentient beings'. The crusading missionary is afire with the message he proclaims, but can be totally lacking in receptivity and sensitivity... Today we need to combine in our experience of our church the true saint and the genuine missionary whose sole concern is manifesting the kingdom and not annexing new territories."
+ Fr. K.M. George, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in India
