Spirit Quotes by Maximus the Confessor

10 Spirit quotes by Maximus the Confessor

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From the early centuries, Maximus’s ten reflections on the spirit reveal his deep theological insight. Though brief, they capture his contemplative tone and the mystical dimension he brought to Christian thought.

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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…

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Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free…

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If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond…

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... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own…

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Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh,…

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Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been…

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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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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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He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination…

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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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There are lots of those who speak but few who do. However, no one should distort the word of God by his own negligence,…

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If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship…

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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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