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Maximus The Confessor Quotes

Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord Picture Quote #1
There are lots of those who speak but few who do. However, no one should distort the word of God by his own negligence, but it is better to confess your own weakness, not hiding the truth of God, so that together with the breaking of the commandments you do not also appear guilty of an untrustworthy explanation of the word of God Picture Quote #1
Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily Picture Quote #1
Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it to true knowledge of nature. Faith leads to the contemplation of the Holy Trinity Picture Quote #1
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A man of discernment, meditating on the healing Divine Providence, bears with thanksgiving the misfortunes that come to him. He sees their causes in his own sins, and not in anyone else. But a mindless man, when he sins and receives the punishment for it, considers the cause of his misfortune to be God, or people, not understanding God’s care for him Picture Quote #1
In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death Picture Quote #1
As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point of view also appears imperfect and refractory because of me. For I diminish and cripple Him by not growing in spirit with Him, since I am ‘the body of Christ and one of its members’ (I Cor. 12:27) Picture Quote #1
We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul’s impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, ‘Early in the morning I destroyed all the wicked of the earth, that I might cut off all evil-doers from the city of the Lord’ (Ps. 101:8) - that is, the passions of the body and the soul’s godless thoughts Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
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To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love Picture Quote #1
Christianity is an entirely new way of being human Picture Quote #1
Theology without practice is the theology of demons Picture Quote #1
Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired Picture Quote #1
Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that hope whereby we grasp things of the future as though they were present. Without the power of desire there is no longing, and so no love, which is the issue of longing; for the property of desire is to love something. And without the incensive power, intensifying the desire for union with what is loved, there can be no peace, for peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired Picture Quote #1
He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or that, or sometimes loving, sometimes hating one and the same man. Blessed is the man who can love all men equally Picture Quote #1
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You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins Picture Quote #1
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Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) There are lots of those who speak but few who do. However, no one should distort the word of God by his own negligence, but it is better to confess your own weakness, not hiding the truth of God, so that together with the breaking of the commandments you do not also appear guilty of an untrustworthy explanation of the word of God.  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.  (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.  (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.  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it to true knowledge of nature. Faith leads to the contemplation of the Holy Trinity.  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) A man of discernment, meditating on the healing Divine Providence, bears with thanksgiving the misfortunes that come to him. He sees their causes in his own sins, and not in anyone else. But a mindless man, when he sins and receives the punishment for it, considers the cause of his misfortune to be God, or people, not understanding God’s care for him.  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point of view also appears imperfect and refractory because of me. For I diminish and cripple Him by not growing in spirit with Him, since I am ‘the body of Christ and one of its members’ (I Cor. 12:27)  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul’s impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, ‘Early in the morning I destroyed all the wicked of the earth, that I might cut off all evil-doers from the city of the Lord’ (Ps. 101:8) - that is, the passions of the body and the soul’s godless thoughts  (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  (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  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) Christianity is an entirely new way of being human  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) Theology without practice is the theology of demons  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that hope whereby we grasp things of the future as though they were present. Without the power of desire there is no longing, and so no love, which is the issue of longing; for the property of desire is to love something. And without the incensive power, intensifying the desire for union with what is loved, there can be no peace, for peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or that, or sometimes loving, sometimes hating one and the same man. Blessed is the man who can love all men equally  (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  (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  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes) He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins  (Maximus The Confessor Quotes)