Body Quotes by Maximus the Confessor

11 Body quotes by Maximus the Confessor

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Maximus the Confessor’s eleven brief reflections treat the body as a field for spiritual practice, each line a succinct reminder of the link between physical and divine.

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Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But…

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Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual…

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Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other…

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In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor…

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Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from…

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We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in…

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Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for…

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He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute…

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As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ…

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The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from…

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If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and…

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The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to…

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Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So…

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A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of…

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Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to…

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For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or…

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Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

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A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it…

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Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love…

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As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly

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'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears his distress.…

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