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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.

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Obedience in marriage is discernment and love — St John Chrysostom

22 May 2018 By Andrew Leave a Comment

When we speak of the wife obeying the husband, we normally think of obedience in military or political terms: the husband giving orders and the wife obeying them. But while this type of obedience may be appropriate in the army, it is ridiculous in the intimate relationship of marriage. The obedient wife does not wait for orders. Rather, she tries to discern her husband’s needs and feelings, and responds in love. When she sees her… [ read more ]

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The passions turn our thirst for the infinite on to something which cannot satisfy it — Dimitru Staniloae

15 December 2017 By Andrew Leave a Comment

Another characteristic of the passions is that in the man unquenchable thirst is manifested, which seeks to be quenched and can’t be. Blondel says that they represent man’s thirst for the infinite, turned in a direction in which they can’t find their satisfaction. Dostoevsky has a similar idea.

Neilosthe ascetic writes that the stomach, by gluttony, becomes a sea impossible to fill – a good description of any passion. This always unsatisfied infinity is due… [ read more ]

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