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Light Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- 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…
- Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.
- When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely…
- He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light…
- ...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive…
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