Being human Quote by Maximus the Confessor Download Open image “Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.” — Maximus the Confessor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being human Christianity Humans New ways Way
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development. — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue. — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character. — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There are lots of those who speak but few who do. However, no one should distort the word of God by his own negligence,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
