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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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The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.
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In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving…
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What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
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I was such a late bloomer I didn’t have feelings towards men or women, and frankly I was a little surprised when…
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Every year at this time, an important phrase marks the season: peace on earth and goodwill towards men. It's so common we…
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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards…
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He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing…
— John of Kronstadt
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Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't…
— Anja Rubik
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He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another…
— Maximus the Confessor
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
— Seneca the Younger
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards…
— Francis Bacon
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men…
— Albert Einstein
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