Theology without practice is the theology of demons

- Maximus The Confessor

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

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 …

- Maximus The Confessor

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 re…

- Maximus The Confessor

Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.

- Maximus The Confessor

But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who persecute you. Why did he command these things?…

- Maximus The Confessor

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

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 di…

- Maximus The Confessor

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