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Own Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will…
- He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine…
- 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…
- 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…
- ... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to…
- 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…
- Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls…
- Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in…
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