Four Hundred Texts on Love (Fourth Century) 8
Posted: August 16th, 2012 | Author: Scott | Filed under: St. Maximos the Confessor | Tags: love, passions, st. maximos | Comments Off on Four Hundred Texts on Love (Fourth Century) 815. A soul’s motivation is rightly ordered when its desiring power is subordinated to self-control, when its incensive power rejects hatred and cleaves to love, and when its power of intelligence, through prayer and spiritual contemplation, advances towards God.
Without self-control, we are ruled by the passions flowing from our disordered nous. We tend to lash out when provoked; it’s not easy to embrace love. And ultimately, we need to know God.