Maximus the Confessor Quotes

• Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.

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  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

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• Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

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  Way, Christianity, Being Human

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• Pero yo os digo que el Señor dice: amad a vuestros enemigos, haced el bien a los que os odian, orad por los que os persiguen. ¿Por qué ordenó estas cosas? Para liberaros del odio, de la tristeza, de la ira y del rencor, y concederos la mayor posesión de todas, el amor perfecto, que es imposible de poseer sino por quien ama a todos por igual a imitación de Dios.

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  Christian, Hate, Love You

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• 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.

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  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

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• Theology without practice is the theology of demons

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  Practice, Demon, Theology

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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.

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  Espiritual, Religioso, Bondad

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• 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.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Fire

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• Do not say that faith in Christ alone can save you, for this is not possible if you do not attain love for Him, which is demonstrated by deeds. As for mere faith: "The demons also believe and tremble" (James, 2:19). The action of love consists in heartfelt good deeds toward one's neighbor, magnanimity, patience, and sober use of things.

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

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  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

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• Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.

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  Fe, Inspiración, Inspiración cristiana

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• 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.

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  Christian, Brother, Judging

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• If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17).

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  Christian, Men, Suffering

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• El que ha realizado el amor a Dios en su corazón es incansable en su búsqueda del Señor, su Dios, y soporta todas las dificultades, los reproches y los insultos con nobleza, sin pensar nunca el menor mal de nadie.

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  Cristiano, Corazón, Pensamiento

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• When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.

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  Christian, Real, Eye

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• The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought on by various misfortunes. He who refuses them does not realize what they accomplish in this world or what he will gain from them when he departs this life.

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  Christian, Pain, Wish

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

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  Philosophy, Training, Conformity

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• Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through faith made manifest in action. For He is near you: 'The word is... in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the word of faith' (Rom. 10:8) - Christ being Himself the word that is sought.

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  Christian, Heart, Looks

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• By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.

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  Christian, Blessed, Men

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• Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love of God. For love toward God does not at all tolerate hatred for man.

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  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

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

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  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds.

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  Christian, Passion, Men

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• A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.

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  Christian, Heart, Writing

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• The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Integrity

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

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  Christian, Spiritual, Humility

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

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  Motivation, Our Actions, Intention

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