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Life is understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.

28 May 2020 By Andrew Leave a Comment

Søren Kierkegaard

It is quite true what philosophy says, that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward.

— /Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 2/ Kierkegaard, Søren, et al., Journal JJ:167 1843, p179, Princeton University Press, 2015.

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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

St Maximos the Confessor

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.

— St Maximos the Confessor: 400 Texts on Love, 70 in (1982) eds. Palmer, Sherrard, Ware: /The Philokalia/ Vol. 2, p.76

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Obedience in marriage is discernment and love — St John Chrysostom

22 May 2018 By Andrew Leave a Comment

St John Chrysostom

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 ]

— Robert Van de Weyer (ed.): /On Living Simply: The Golden Voice of John Chrysostom/

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