"By His gracious condescension God became man and……" — Maximus the Confessor
"By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment."
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Maximus the Confessor
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62 Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
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