Diadochos of Photiki: Quotes about love

Diadochos of Photiki was Byzantine saint. Explore interesting quotes on love.
Diadochos of Photiki: 20 quotes0 likes

“If the soul, through attentiveness, reduces the blindness caused by the love of this world, it will consider its slightest faults to be very grave and will continually shed tears. ... But if the soul persists in its worldly disposition, even though it commits a murder or some other act deserving severe punishment, it takes little notice; and it is quite unable to discern its other faults, often considering them to be signs of progress, and in its wretchedness it is not ashamed to defend them heatedly.”

Diadochos of Photiki

§ 27
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“No one can love God consciously in his heart unless he has first feared Him with all his heart. Through the action of fear the soul is purified and, as it were, made malleable and so it becomes awakened to the action of love.”

Diadochos of Photiki

§ 16
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

“Whoever loves himself cannot love God.”

Diadochos of Photiki

§ 12
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)