Eastern Orthodox Saints in English
Eastern Orthodox Saints in English
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“In addition to all these things, I am extremely apprehensive about admitting this particular argument [i.e., that the soul comes into being after the body], since the logical implications of it might justly make me subject to dreadful accusations, since it will lead me to utter what is not lawful, being constrained by the sequence…
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He that in imitation of God does almsdeeds knows no difference between evil and good, just and unjust, in regard to the needs of the body, but distributes equally to all according to their need, even though for his good intention he prefers the virtuous to the bad. —Four Centuries on Charity, 1.24
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As much as He became comprehensible through the fact of His birth, by so much more do we now know Him to be incomprehensible precisely because of that birth. —St. Maximus the Confessor, Ambiguum 5
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The one who loves God prefers knowledge of him to all things made by him and is constantly devoted to it by desire. —St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Chapters on Love, 1.4