“What is it that the God-man gives to man which no one else is
capable of giving? It is victory over death, over sin, and over the
devil, Eternal Life, Eternal Truth, Eternal Justice, Eternal Virtue,
Eternal Love, Eternal Joy: the entire fullness of the Godhead and of
Divine Perfection. As the Apostle tells us: the God-man gives to men
‘those things which God has prepared for those who love Him, which no
eye has seen, which no ear has heard, and which have not entered the
heart of man’ (1 Cor. 2:9).
In fact only He, the wondrous God-man, is the ‘one thing that is
needed’ (cf. Luke 10:42) by man in all his worlds and in his every life.
Therefore, only the God-man is justified in asking of us that which no
one else has ever dared to ask: that we love Him more than we love
parents, siblings, children, friends, the earth, the angels, anyone and
everyone in all the worlds, visible and invisible (Matth. 10:37-39; Luke
14:26, Rom. 8 31-39).”
— St. Justin Popovich, Orthodox Faith & Life in Christ
, “Reflections on the Infallibility of European Man”
, “Reflections on the Infallibility of European Man”
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