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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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To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,…
Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.
Theology without practice is the theology of demons
God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because…
But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who…
Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand…
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and…
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond…
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;…
Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through…
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from…
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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Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh,… — Maximus the Confessor
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