Living Prayer

'Often, we are told that prayer is an enthralling adventure... In a sense of course this is true; but something very much more far-reaching is being forgotten when such statements are made: it is that prayer is a dangerous adventure and that we cannot enter upon it without risk.'

In Living Prayer Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh - who was in charge of the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain and Ireland from 1962 to 2003 - explains that unless prayer 'lives' and is linked realistically to action, behaviour and life, it is not genuine prayer.