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Body Quotes by 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 he…
- Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the…
- Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we…
- He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple…
- We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in the morning I…
- The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the…
- As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point…
- If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and the sons of…
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine