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One Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- 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…
- 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 what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been…
- Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.
- Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what…
- ...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for the people of…
- A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart…
- As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point…
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