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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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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but…
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of…
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It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done…
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I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
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The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what…
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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a…
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Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
— Walter Savage Landor
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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
— C.S. Lewis
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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think,…
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