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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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My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God
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