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Us Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- 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…
- Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we…
- If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our…
- ... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to…
- 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 Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to the…
- If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and the sons of…
- 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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