From the sound of your framing, perhaps not by your standards. Do you believe that when Jesus went through His torture and death that it had anything to do with His respect for us? Kosta, love and respect are completely different concepts, why do you equate them?"
I think Kosta may have been being a bit ironic in his comment. Orthodoxy stresses the humility of Christ. Witness the following icon "Extreme Humility". The process of theosis necessarily requires a development of a profound degree of humility in order to be "like Christ".
Interestingly, this image of humility isn't applied only to The Logos, Christ, but also to the Holy Spirit. I may have posted this before on this thread, but this comment from the holy Athonite Archimandrite Sophrony demonstrates this forcfully:
"The Holy Spirit comes when we are receptive. He does not compel. He approaches so meekly that we may not even notice. If we would know the Holy Spirit we need to examine ourselves in the light of the Gospel teaching, to detect any other presence which may prevent the Holy Spirit from entering into our souls. We must not wait for God to force Himself on us without our consent. God respects and does not constrain man. It is amazing how God humbles Himself before us. He loves us with a tender love, not haughtily, not with condescension. And when we open our hearts to Him we are overwhelmed by the conviction that He is indeed our Father. The soul then worships in love."
Imagine, FK, the Pantokrator, the Ruler of All Creation approaches us, miserable, self centered us, with meekness, with love, with respect and with humility!