Diadochos of Photiki Quotes

• Es bien sabido que la obediencia es la principal de las virtudes iniciáticas, pues primero desplaza la presunción y luego engendra en nosotros la humildad. Se convierte así, para quien la abraza de buen grado, en una puerta que conduce al amor de Dios...". Así pues, la humildad debe ser la primera preocupación de quienes luchan contra la presunción del demonio, pues a medida que avancemos será una guía segura hacia todos los caminos de la virtud.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Humility, Fighting

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• Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But when a person is spiritually awakened, even if something irritates him, the bond of love is not dissolved; rekindling himself with warmth of the love of God, he quickly recovers himself and with great joy seeks his neighbor's love, even though he has been gravely wronged or insulted by him. For sweetness of God completely consumes the bitterness of the quarrel.

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  Spiritual, Peace, Love Is

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• When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Spiritual, Peace, Men

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• All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Great Love, Orthodox

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• Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Mother, Ideas

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• The reason that we have both good and wicked thoughts together is not, as some suppose, because the Holy Spirit and the devil dwell together in our intellect, but because we have not yet consciously experienced the goodness of the Lord. As I have said before, grace at first conceals its presence in those who have been baptized, waiting to see which way the soul inclines; but when the whole man has turned toward the Lord, it then reveals to the heart its presence there with a feeling words cannot express.

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  Espiritual, Corazón, Hombres

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• At the beginning of the struggle the holy commandments of God must be fulfilled with a certain forcefulness of will (cf. Mt. 11:12); then the Lord, seeing our intention and labour, will grant us readiness of will and gladness in obeying His purposes. For 'it is the Lord who makes ready the will' (Prov. 8:35 LXX), so that we always do what is right joyfully. Then shall we truly feel that 'it is God who energizes in you both the willing and the doing of His purpose' (Phil. 2:13).

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Struggle, Cfs

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• Sólo el Espíritu Santo puede purificar el intelecto, porque, a menos que venga un poder mayor y derribe al despojador, lo que ha llevado cautivo nunca será liberado (cf. Lc. 11:21-22). Por tanto, en todos los sentidos, y especialmente mediante la paz del alma, debemos convertirnos en morada del Espíritu Santo.

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  Christian, Taken, Dwelling Place

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