Maximus the Confessor Quotes About Contemplation

• 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.

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  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

• Quien, mediante la virtud y el conocimiento espiritual, ha armonizado su cuerpo con su alma, se ha convertido en arpa, flauta y templo de Dios. Se ha convertido en arpa al conservar la armonía de las virtudes; en flauta al recibir la inspiración del Espíritu mediante la contemplación divina; y en templo al convertirse en morada del Logos mediante la pureza de su intelecto.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Inspiration

• 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

• When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will find within us Christ the spring of life (cf. Gen. 26:15-18). Wisdom commands us to drink from this spring, saying, 'Drink water from your own pitchers and from the spring of your own wells' (Prov. 5:15). If we do this we shall find that the treasures of wisdom truly are within us.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Spring

• If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit.

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  Christian, Teaching, Mean

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