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Ends Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been…
- No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned…
- '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…
- Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what…
- ...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for the people of…
- 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…
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