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Maximus the Confessor has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,…
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Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.
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Theology without practice is the theology of demons
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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because…
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But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who…
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Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand…
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When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and…
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If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond…
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When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;…
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Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through…
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Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from…
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He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent…
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
— Jeb Bush
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The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I…
— Phylicia Rashad
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If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is…
— Fred Saberhagen
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As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
— Brett Favre
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When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.
— Henri Matisse
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God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.
— Albert Einstein
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The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
— Robert Breault
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God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations…
— Albert Einstein
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Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody…
— Deepak Chopra
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Are you a person—with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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