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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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“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.’”

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“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.”

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Prayer carries us, not we our prayer – Mother Alexandra Share on X
I sometimes think we give too much importance to our outward attitude of prayer. We expect too much emotionally of ourselves, much more than God is… [ Read more ]
–Mother Alexandra (founder of Holy Transfiguration Monastery near Pittsburgh and the former Princess Ileana of Romania)

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