Ancient Anglican

“In the perfect sense, forgiveness is not reconciliation when forgiveness is asked for; but it is reconciliation to need to forgive beforehand long before the other is person is perhaps thinking of seeking forgiveness.” – Soren Kierkegaard

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

We will find in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, the highest morals and the perfect standard of the Christian life. – St. Augustine

Even though the Beloved breaks off the relationship or fails to reciprocate the love, so long as the Lover continues to love, the love remains.

It is only an illusion to imagine that one himself has forgiveness, although one is slack in forgiving others.

Only when we presuppose the existence of love in the other do we have the foundation in which to build up the love in the other.

Our Love is known by its Works of Love just as tree is know by its fruit. Luke 6:44

The task is not to find the loveable object, but to find the object before you loveable. To love is to love the person one sees.

To paraphrase Jesus (Matt. 7:24-27), a relationship can either be built on the rock of God’s love or the shifting sands of human preference.

This duty to love is blind to the identity of the beloved. Because of the imperative “shall”, this love is given unconditionally and equally to all persons without any distinctions. When we do our duty to love, we find our neighbor.

God becomes human not only to show his love for us but so we may fully reciprocate that love towards him.

He saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit, which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,