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Power Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.
- If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those…
- ... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to…
- The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of…
- Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that…
- 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…
- By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the…
- 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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