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Passions Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in the morning I…
- The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul 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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- It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. — Aesop
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- The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- We are minor in everything but our passions. — Elizabeth Bowen
- If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. — James Buchan