Finding the Freedom to Live

Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity

  • About
  • Resources
  • Themes
  • Contact
  • E-mail
  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
Copyright © 2022
[Privacy Policy]
[Terms of Service]
You are here: Home / Archives for Love

You have not yet acquired perfect love if your regard for people is still swayed by their characters – St Maximos

18 October 2018 By Andrew Leave a Comment

You have not yet acquired perfect love if your regard for people is still swayed by their characters – for example, if, for some particular reason, you love one person and hate another, or if for the same reason you sometimes love and sometimes hate the same person.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

“Mature love says: I need you because I love you.” — Erich Fromm

3 July 2017 By Andrew Leave a Comment

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’”

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise” — Erich Fromm

3 July 2017 By Andrew Leave a Comment

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Next Page »

Keep in touch

Our facebook page

Our facebook page
The man of the passions is a man of passivity, enslaved — Dimitru Staniloae Click To Tweet
The passions represent the lowest level to which human nature can fall. Both their Greek name, pathi, as well as the Latin, passiones, show that man… [ Read more ]
–Dimitru Staniloae

Listen to the podcast

Posts by theme

  • addiction
  • communion
  • confession
  • cross
  • family
  • fantasy
  • freedom
  • iconography
  • marriage
  • passions
  • pornography
  • prayer
  • repentance
  • saints
  • sexuality
  • temptation

Search FtL

Tweets by @FtFtLive

Support our Work