We Orthodox are fond of saying that Orthodoxy is most fundamentally
neither a system of doctrine nor an institution, important as both
those are, but first and last a way of life, as in Bishop Kallistos'
little book, The Orthodox Way. We do not very often live up to that
claim, but we can and do point to those whom we believe have done so,
to our saints, as the proof of things unseen and embodying the
substance of things hoped for.

- Fr Alexander Golitzin