The world was not created unintentionally or out of necessity; it is not an automatic emanation or overflowing from God, but the consequence of Divine choice. We should think, not of God the Manufacturer or God the Craftsman, but of God the Lover. By voluntary choice God created the world in “ecstatic” love, so that there might be besides Himself other beings to participate in the life and the love that are His.
Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way, (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, 1995) 44.
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