"Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession……" — Maximus the Confessor

"Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired."

— Maximus the Confessor

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62 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…
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…
But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for…
Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do…
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic…
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples…
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such…
Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within…
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps…
He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun…

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