Quote of the Week: St Diadochos
May 13, 2010
Faith: dispassionate understanding of God.
Hope: the flight of the intellect in love towards that for which it hopes.
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Knowledge: to lose awareness of oneself through going out to God in ecstasy.
Humility: attentive forgetfulness of what one has accomplished.
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Purity: unwavering perception of God.
Love: growing affection for those who abuse us.
–St. Diadochos of Photiki, “Definitions,” in The Philokalia. Vol. 1. trans. G.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware (London: Faber and Faber, 1983), 252.
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Love: growing affection for those who abuse us.
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I think so.
Terry
Indeed, I thought St Diadochos was onto something with these definitions; he had a few more (I didn’t want to copy the whole work) but these were my favorite.