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"This is true perfection: not to avoid a wicked life because like slaves we servilely fear punishment, not to do good because we hope for rewards, as if cashing in on the virtuous life by some business-like arrangement. On the contrary… we regard falling from God’s friendship as the only thing dreadful and we consider becoming God’s friend the only thing worthy of honor and desire.
This, as I have said, is the perfection of life."
– Gregory of Nyssa
331-396
Background Image:
“The Return of
the Prodigal Son”
Rembrandt, c. 1669
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