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[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

To give hope to others, sometimes it is simply enough to be kind, to put aside your own worries and priorities in order to show interest, give the gift of a smile, speak an encouraging word, create a space for listening amid so much indifference.

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"When the love of God is completely overwhelming,
it binds the lover not just to God,
but to everyone else, too."

-St. Thalassios the Libyan

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"When a man’s intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love."

-St. Maximus the Confessor

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"We who plague people with words are many nowadays, while those who teach or are taught by actions are very few." -St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love

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"As long as you have bad habits, do not reject hardship." -St. Maximus the Confessor

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"Some passions pertain to the soul’s incensive power, and others to its desiring aspect. Both kinds are aroused through the senses. They are aroused when the soul lacks love and self-control."

-St. Maximus the Confessor

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@MCarlso47025296 Yes. The writings of holy people who are also intellectually-gifted: A true joy.

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Which Church Father/Mother or Desert Father/Mother is dearest to you and why?
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@rylertatliff That is a beautiful choice and a rock-solid reason to admire a saint!

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"When a man’s intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God."

-St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love, 48

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"Certain things stop the movement of the passions, others subdue them. With regard to anger: forbearance, freedom from rancor, gentleness all arrest it, while love, acts of charity, kindness and compassion make it diminish."

-St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love

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"When a trial comes upon you unexpectedly, do not blame the person through whom it came but try to discover the reason why it came, and then you will find a way of dealing with it."

-St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love, 43

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"Like a good and loving physician He heals with individual treatment each of those who are trying to make progress."

-St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love, 38

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"Many human activities, good in themselves, are not good because of the motive for which they are done. In everything that we do God searches out our purpose to see whether we do it for Him or for some other motive."

-St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love, 37

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"For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another’s, between Christians and unbelievers, between slave and free, or even between male and female."

-St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love

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"He who combines the practice of the virtues with spiritual knowledge is a man of power. For with the first he withers his desire and tames his incensiveness, and with the second he gives wings to his intellect and goes out of himself to God."

-St. Maximus the Confessor

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"The reward of self-control is dispassion, and the reward of faith is spiritual knowledge. Dispassion engenders discrimination, and spiritual knowledge engenders love for God."

-St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love

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"Vladyka also used to say that without love, suffering means nothing; and to love is much more difficult than to endure suffering because love always presupposes voluntary action, in contrast to suffering, which is passive."

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“He Saw the Image of Christ in Each of Us”
https://t.co/CRWApQsLBg

Remembering Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Vladyka used to say that with shining eyes alone one can show faith—a living faith in Christ.

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“As Great as is Our Joy, So Strong is Our Connection with God”
https://t.co/t70zC6FjQg

Archimandrite Aimilianos (Vafeidis)

It’s in an atmosphere of joy that the soul is able to thrive, to see God, and enjoy His presence.