What appears to our understanding to be antinomic - the human and the national in conflict with one another, or, in other words, the identity among people and the distinction among nations ‐ are in reality inseparably united in the most intimate and mysterious way, with both being fully preserved; only a simplistic mind disregards one or the other of the terms of the antinomy. It follows from this that harmony among nations is not excluded but very much possible, for they are the same humanity existing in different forms, necessarily determined in one way here and in another there. Nations are, in their essence, eternal in God. God wills them all. In each, He reveals a nuance of His infinite spirituality.
– St. Dumitru Stăniloae, Ortodoxie Și Românism, 1934