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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

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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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