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Maximus the Confessor has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,…
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Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.
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Theology without practice is the theology of demons
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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because…
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But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who…
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Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand…
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When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and…
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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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When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;…
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Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through…
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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…
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He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent…
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so…
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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
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How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
— Khalil Gibran
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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's…
— George Eliot
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There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles…
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Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
— Edward Abbey
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Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do…
— Noam Chomsky
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry.
— William Bernard Ullathorne
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As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny…
— Ernst Haeckel
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