Way Quotes by Maximus the Confessor

9 Way quotes by Maximus the Confessor

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Maximus the Confessor’s nine short reflections on Way distill centuries‑old spiritual insight into bite‑size wisdom. They provide a focused look at how inner direction intertwines with faith and purpose.

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Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

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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…

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Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed,…

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Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day…

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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…

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He who is a beginner on the way must not be brought to practise the commandments by kindness alone, but must more…

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If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of…

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He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he…

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Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring…

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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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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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