Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There are lots of those who speak but few who do. However, no one should distort the word of God by his own negligence,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
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… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
