“It is all too easy for us to diminish our human dignity – a gift from God – when we attempt to make the “vices” of the world into something, or somehow, acceptable to God. We exhibit our inability to comprehend the Truth of the Incarnation, that God is love and wants to lift us up…when we attempt to define that Love in simple human terms…
(Ukrainian Orthodox Bishops of Beyond the Borders, Nativity 2016)
 
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