Abandon Quote by Maximus the Confessor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Maximus the Confessor

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

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

As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly

— Maximus the Confessor