Maximus the Confessor Quotes About Son

Quotes about: Son

• Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

• ...the Lord said as He drew near His passion, 'Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself; and He will glorify Him at once' (Jn. 13:31-32). From This it is clear that divine gifts follow sufferings endured for the sake of virtue.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Passion, Son

• If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and the sons of God, let us believe that we shall reach the realm where Christ Himself now is; for He is the head of the whole body (cf. Col. 1:18), and endued with our humanity has gone to the Father as forerunner on our behalf. God will stand 'in the midst of the congregation of gods' (Ps. 82:1 LXX) - that is, of those who are saved - distributing the rewards of that realm's blessedness to those found worthy to receive them, not separated from them by any space.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Father, Believe

• Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Spiritual, Mean, Independent

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