Pandora, that section of his writings appears to be about abortion. That was not what I was talking about at all. 

Here's another source:

". . . it becomes evident that the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church differ in their understanding of the purpose of marriage. In orthodox theological thinking this is firstly the reciprocal love, the relationship and the help between the marriage partners with view to their completion in Christ. Only subsequently comes the restraining of their sexual passion and the reproduction of the human race. It is remarkable that in the New Testament we find no reference relating marriage to reproduction . . . To see reproduction as the principal purpose of marriage is a narrow perspective on the conjugal life of man and wife."
~ MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH: Economia and Pastoral Guidance