or: Thoughts on Fear, Love, and Salvation But if it is possible to be saved | without love, O my Christ, |how shall this be? | Impossible! If we were separated from the light, | how shall we flee the darkness? | If we were deprived of joy, | how would we be free from [...]
To what does Christ save us?
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Fear and Love
“No one can love God consciously in his heart unless he has first feared him with all his heart.” St. Diadochos of Photiki, On Spiritual Knowledge, #16 I do not fear God with all my heart. Instead, I fear people. This troubling realization came to me two weeks ago as I read Jesus’ words in Luke [...]
Filed Under: House of St. Michael, Reflections Tagged With: Anxiety, attachment, Cares of Life, detachment, Diadochos of Photiki, Fear, love, Maximus Confessor, Pride
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