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Christ Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will…
- Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through faith made manifest…
- 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…
- Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ. For only they…
- There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather…
- '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. 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…
- Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls…
- 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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