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Maximus The Confessor quotes: As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly

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

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you.

Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.

In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.

In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.

Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth to them who have believed the slander.

Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth to them who have believed the slander.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.

Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

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

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Theology without practice is the theology of demons

Theology without practice is the theology of demons

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.

Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.

In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.

Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation.

There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.

Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.

Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.

Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.

Maximus The Confessor quotes: Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.

Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.