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
Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily. — 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… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory… — 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… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been… — 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,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been… — 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 asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
He who is a beginner on the way must not be brought to practise the commandments by kindness alone, but must more… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another… — 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
The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those… — 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… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share
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
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
As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share
'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.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share
If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he who abandons… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share
The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share
