Maximus The Confessor Quotes

“St Maximus the Confessor says that the saints have attained to a pure simplicity, because they have overcome in themselves all duality and pretence. They have passed beyond the struggle between soul and body, between good intentions and works performed, between deceitful appearances and hidden thoughts, between what they pretend to be and what they actually are. They have become simple because they have given themselves entirely to God.”
― Dumitru Stăniloae, Prayer and Holiness: The Icon of Man Renewed in God