Maximus the Confessor Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• 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

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

• 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

  Christian, Icons, Grace

• The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of the truth. It teaches those too much concerned with a life in the flesh to deepen themselves through such sufferings instead of pursuing ease and comfort; and it makes the flesh's natural weakness in the endurance of suffering a foundation for overwhelming spiritual power. For the natural weakness of the saints is precisely such a foundation, since the Lord has made their weakness stronger than the proud devil.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Evil

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