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Love Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity,…
- But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who persecute you. Why…
- Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he…
- 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.
- He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge…
- He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he receives it according…
- When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut you off from…
- He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach…
- 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…
- He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or…
- 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…
- Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that…
- By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the…
- He who is a beginner on the way must not be brought to practise the commandments by kindness alone, but must more often be induced…
- The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to the…
- The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not…
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