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Spiritual Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity,…
- 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…
- When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we…
- Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the…
- He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge…
- 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…
- Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.
- ... 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…
- ...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…
- He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple…
- If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of…
- 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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