Finding the Freedom to Live

Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity

  • About
  • Resources
  • Themes
  • Contact
Copyright © 2023
[Privacy Policy]
[Terms of Service]
You are here: Home / Archives for St Maximos the Confessor

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)

Love rejoices when others repent; but hatred is estrangement from God – St Maximos

8 August 2016 By Andrew Leave a Comment

The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds.

A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified. If we detect any trace of hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged… [ read more ]

Share this:

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

Keep in touch

Listen to the podcast

True self-knowledge – to see our own defects above all else – is the only way forward Click To Tweet
True self-knowledge is to see one's own defects and weaknesses so clearly that they fill our whole view. And mark this -- the more you see… [ Read more ]
–St Theophan the Recluse

Search FtL

Support our Work

Tweets by @FtFtLive

Our facebook page

Our facebook page

Post Tags

pornographyiconographyaddictionsexualitypassionsmarriagetemptationfreedomrepentancecrossprayerconfessionfantasysaintsfamilycommunion