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— Maximus the Confessor"Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily."
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Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But love and temperance cut out both the one and the other: Love cuts out spiritual passions, and temperance bodily ones.
— Maximus the Confessor
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