--- title: "14 Cfs Quotes By Maximus the Confessor" description: "14 Cfs quotes by Maximus the Confessor. Plus more from Maximus the Confessor and more Cfs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20e/maximus-the-confessor-7435_access_when-our-intellect-has-shaken-off-its-ma_766569.jpg" --- > [When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/when-our-intellect-has-shaken-off-its-many-opinions-about-created/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20e/maximus-the-confessor-7435_access_when-our-intellect-has-shaken-off-its-ma_766569.jpg) > [If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/if-the-divine-logos-of-god-the-father-became-son-of-man-and-man-so/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7f/maximus-the-confessor-7435_behalf_if-the-divine-logos-of-god-the-father-be_536925.jpg) > [When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/when-like-the-patriarchs-we-learn-to-dig-wells-of-virtue-and/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e55/maximus-the-confessor-7435_cfs_when-like-the-patriarchs-we-learn-to-dig_2144935.jpg) > [If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/if-we-keep-the-path-of-virtue-undefiled-through-devout-and-true/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db0/maximus-the-confessor-7435_advent_if-we-keep-the-path-of-virtue-undefiled_1996359.jpg) > ['The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/the-long-suffering-man-abounds-in-understanding-prov-14-29-because-he/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/maximus-the-confessor-7435_bears_the-long-suffering-man-abounds-in-unders_412451.jpg) > [Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/blessed-is-he-who-like-joshua-cf-josh-10-12-13-keeps-the-sun-of/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72a/maximus-the-confessor-7435_able_blessed-is-he-who-like-joshua-cf-josh-10_1660661.jpg) > [The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/the-man-who-has-struggled-bravely-with-the-passions-of-the-body-has/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/354/maximus-the-confessor-7435_body_the-man-who-has-struggled-bravely-with-t_1554639.jpg) > [... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/for-our-sake-loosing-within-himself-the-bonds-of-bodily-birth-he/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/maximus-the-confessor-7435_adam_for-our-sake-loosing-within-himself-the_2031997.jpg) > [For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/for-him-who-is-perfect-in-love-and-has-reached-the-summit-of/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b3/maximus-the-confessor-7435_attention_for-him-who-is-perfect-in-love-and-has-r_263409.jpg) > [A man who has been assiduous in acquiring the fruits of love will not cease loving even if he suffers a thousand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/a-man-who-has-been-assiduous-in-acquiring-the-fruits-of-love-will-not/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a2/maximus-the-confessor-7435_calamity_a-man-who-has-been-assiduous-in-acquirin_2462035.jpg) > [...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/one-s-movement-towards-the-divine-reaches-its-end-only-when-one/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/955/maximus-the-confessor-7435_bears_one-s-movement-towards-the-divine-reache_2376863.jpg) > [Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/our-forefather-adam-used-his-freedom-to-turn-toward-what-was-worse/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ad/maximus-the-confessor-7435_adam_our-forefather-adam-used-his-freedom-to_3206296.jpg) > [He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/he-who-asks-to-receive-his-daily-bread-does-not-automatically-receive/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6da/maximus-the-confessor-7435_ability_he-who-asks-to-receive-his-daily-bread-d_1640333.jpg) > [Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/just-as-the-teaching-of-the-law-and-the-prophets-being-harbingers-of/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d21/maximus-the-confessor-7435_advent_just-as-the-teaching-of-the-law-and-the_2643672.jpg) ## Other authors on Cfs ## More by Maximus the Confessor > [When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/when-what-has-been-created-in-time-according-to-the-temporal-order/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [There are lots of those who speak but few who do. However, no one should distort the word of God by his own negligence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/there-are-lots-of-those-who-speak-but-few-who-do-however-no-one/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/if-you-make-provision-for-the-desires-of-the-flesh-and-bear-a-grudge/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/the-logos-came-down-out-of-love-for-us-let-us-not-keep-him-down/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/whatever-a-man-loves-he-inevitably-clings-to-and-in-order-not-to-lose/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/a-passion-is-a-contranatural-movement-of-the-soul-or-an-irrational/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/unclean-spirits-increase-the-passions-in-us-making-use-of-our/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/for-him-who-is-perfect-in-love-and-has-reached-the-summit-of/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/peace-is-truly-the-complete-and-undisturbed-possession-of-what-is/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/a-christian-receives-divine-wisdom-in-three-ways-by-the-commandments/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/whoever-sees-in-himself-the-traces-of-hatred-toward-any-man-on/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/as-we-have-borne-the-image-of-the-earthy-let-us-also-bear-the-image/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > ['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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/the-long-suffering-man-abounds-in-understanding-prov-14-29-because-he/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he who abandons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/if-everything-that-exists-was-made-by-god-and-for-god-and-god-is/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) > [The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/the-person-who-truly-wishes-to-be-healed-is-he-who-does-not-refuse/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cfs/maximus-the-confessor/#itemlist", "name": "14 Cfs Quotes By Maximus the Confessor", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). 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Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maximus the Confessor" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/for-our-sake-loosing-within-himself-the-bonds-of-bodily-birth-he/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/maximus-the-confessor-7435_adam_for-our-sake-loosing-within-himself-the_2031997.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/maximus-the-confessor-7435_adam_for-our-sake-loosing-within-himself-the_2031997.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/maximus-the-confessor-7435_adam_for-our-sake-loosing-within-himself-the_2031997.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth…” — Maximus the Confessor", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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 between Christians and unbelievers, or between slave and free, or between male and female. 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