« All Without Practice Quotes
·
Maximus the Confessor's Page
Without Practice Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
1 Without Practice quote by Maximus the Confessor
More Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
Maximus the Confessor has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,…
-
Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.
-
Theology without practice is the theology of demons
-
God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because…
-
But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who…
-
Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand…
-
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and…
-
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond…
-
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;…
-
Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through…
-
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from…
-
He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent…
See all 62 quotes by Maximus the Confessor »
More Without Practice Quotes
Popular Without Practice quotes from across the collection:
-
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
-
Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
— Josh Billings
-
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without…
— Assata Shakur
-
Theology without practice is the theology of demons
— Maximus the Confessor
-
Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.
— Pietro Aretino
-
Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.
— Alois Podhajsky
-
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did…
— Martin Luther
-
Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.
— Confucius
-
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
— Assata Shakur
-
To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it…
— Emmet Fox
-
No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.
— Alexander Suvorov
See all Without Practice Quotes »
Browse Maximus the Confessor Quotes by Category