Top 99 Quotes About Maximus
#1. Maximus turned to the house, thinking. He had no idea how he would do it yet, but he meant to best her. He'd show her that he was the master, and when she'd admitted his victory ... well, then he'd have her. And he'd hold her, by God. His huntress. His goddess.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#2. I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat."
"The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.
Naomi Novik
#3. I will never let Berkley commit treason, ever," Maximus said, "but if he did, I would step on anyone who tried to hang him.
Naomi Novik
#4. Crows," Maximus breathed. "Was that who I think it was?"
"Phrygiar Navaris," Tavi said, nodding.
"What was she doing here?" Max asked.
"Getting humiliated, mostly. Especially there at the end.
Jim Butcher
#5. So, Maximus the Fellatio Trainer - how does your prick feel about scratchy barbarian beards?"
Lucius Petronius
J.P. Kenwood
#6. But ... " Both men looked over inquiringly when Maximus spoke. "But I never asked you to help me with Noakes."
Makepeace nodded, his expression grave. "You didn't have to."
"You never had to," St. John concurred.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#7. Whatever else came tomorrow and for the rest of her life, she would have this moment: this one point in time when she was intimately linked to Maximus.
Maximus the man.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#8. Fine," she hoisted her purse higher and her gaze snagged on the delicious bulge of his male butt hugged so lovingly in a pair of khaki cargo shorts. Wow. Talk about a glutenous maximus that defied gravity. Even though he was a complete jackass, she couldn't help but drool.
Julie Ann Walker
#9. Maximus," she whispered, all moonlight and strength. "I love you. Never forget that.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#10. Maximus grunted. "Some days you remind me of Vlad."
"Meaning?" I said sharply.
"Your obsession with revenge. Next you'll want to drive a pole through that vampire once you find her."
The thought was appealing, but ...
Jeaniene Frost
#11. The dungeon image helped. "You need to let Maximus go," I stated, my voice stronger now.
"No. Wine?
Jeaniene Frost
#12. Maximus said, "They have no tombstones. Not one man in Treverorum wept for their passing." he looked at his audience in turn and smiled. "In the name of Mithras, my master, may the gods be kind to you on your journey.
Wallace Breem
#14. Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield ... Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.
Jack LaLanne
#15. Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man's wolfskin. 'You promised him his life,' the Greek said. 'No, I said death was his last worry.' Maximus swung up on to Pale Horse. 'Is that not so for all of us?
Harry Sidebottom
#16. I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape
Naomi Novik
#17. One general, Fabius Maximus was nicknamed Cunctator, "the Procrastinator." He drove Hannibal, who had an obvious military superiority, crazy by avoiding and delaying engagement.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#18. Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy.
Guy Davenport
#20. The laws are like spiders' webs: just as spiders' webs catch the weaker creatures but let the stronger ones through, so the humble and poor are restricted by the laws, but the rich and powerful are not bound by them (Valerius Maximus Memorable Deeds and Sayings 7.2 ext. 14).
J.C. McKeown
#21. It would be the height of idiocy for the Duke of Wakefield to pursue the cousin of the woman he wanted as wife. And yet, for the first time in his life, Maximus wanted to let the man rule him instead of the title.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#22. Your Grace seems out of breath. I do hope you're not being chased by an overly enthusiastic heiress?" "Pack a light bag, Craven," Maximus snapped. "We're going to London to help a murderous lunatic escape from Bedlam.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#23. Apparently, Clytius hadn't expected her to be quite so suicidal. He was slow raising his sword. By the time he slashed, Hazel had ducked between his legs and jabbed her Imperial gold blade into his gluteus maximus. Not very ladylike. The nuns at St. Agnes would never have approved. But it worked.
Rick Riordan
#24. She glanced at the man quickly. "Thank you." She meant to say more, but something was caught in her throat. Her eyes stung. "Weep not, proud Diana," Maximus murmured. "The moon will not allow it." "No." She agreed, swiping fiercely at her cheeks. "There's no need for tears yet.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#25. Fucking Little Fifteen Ada Palomino throwing change at a hotdog vendor and trying to catch up with Maximus, all long limbs and bad eye makeup. What the actual fuck?
Karina Halle
#26. Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed, and to yet others so as to forestall sins which may be committed in the future. These are distinct from the trials that arise in order to test men in the way that Job was tested.
Maximus The Confessor
#27. True happiness isn't a disruption-free life, its learning to recognize the ever-present contentment amidst the disruptions of life. Go with the flow(non-resistance), and when you struggle, remember to be compassionate with yourself...
Maximus Freeman
#29. Instead of living in the dread or the joy of the future, may we have the intention to live in the Real of the now.
Maximus Freeman
#30. To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.
Maximus The Confessor
#31. Fears are like vampires; not only do they drain your life energy, but they also disintegrate when they are brought into the light. By constantly facing your fears, they eventually lose their power, as the suppressed and repressed energy behind them dissipates.
Maximus Freeman
#32. 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
#33. In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.
Maximus The Confessor
#34. In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.
Maximus The Confessor
#35. The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to the Father, leaving the earth and earthly things behind, lest He say to us what He said to the Jews because of their stubbornness: 'I go where you cannot come (Jn. 8:21).
Maximus The Confessor
#36. Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.
Maximus The Confessor
#37. Contentment is nothing more than a complete absence of judgment and resistance to what is.
Maximus Freeman
#38. He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or that, or sometimes loving, sometimes hating one and the same man. Blessed is the man who can love all men equally.
Maximus The Confessor
#39. A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it to true knowledge of nature. Faith leads to the contemplation of the Holy Trinity.
Maximus The Confessor
#41. If you beat a dead horse long enough,
you will eventually kill it.
Maximus Freeman
#42. Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others, as preparation for things to come, except temptations, which are for the increase of a man's faith and virtue, as it was with Job.
Maximus The Confessor
#43. You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.
Maximus The Confessor
#44. Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#46. Life is amazing, and it's awful, and it's ordinary, mundane and routine, but like the sun behind the clouds, amazing is always there regardless of what is momentarily obscuring it.
Maximus Freeman
#47. If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.
Maximus The Confessor
#49. Understanding the complexities of life may seem very deep, but truth actually resides right on the surface.
Maximus Freeman
#50. I wondered if the owners would mind if I murdered someone in their front yard. A big red-headed someone. He was so full of shit, he'd make fantastic fertilizer for their garden
Karina Halle
#51. Unconditional lovingness, coupled with belieflessness, opens the door to unlimited creative genius.
Maximus Freeman
#52. Each new day provides a new opportunity to allow everyone and everything to be exactly as they are. Allowance (non-judgmental, non-resistance to what is) leads the way to contentment ...
Maximus Freeman
#53. The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds.
Maximus The Confessor
#54. Love: understanding, honesty, humility, forgiveness, acceptance, patience, reverence, gratitude, graciousness, benevolence, compassion and integrity. Be Love.
Maximus Freeman
#55. We are all Divine instruments of God. All we have to do is ask Him which music to play...
Maximus Freeman
#56. The secret to happiness: resist nothing and surrender everything.
Maximus Freeman
#57. Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love of God. For love toward God does not at all tolerate hatred for man.
Maximus The Confessor
#58. If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17).
Maximus The Confessor
#59. Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.
Maximus The Confessor
#60. Diana," he murmured in her ear, licking. "Diana, you are everything I've ever wanted and shall never have."
Tears pricked at her eyes and she opened her mouth to sob.
"That's it," he said. "Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#61. Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other those of the body. This is what the blessed David indicates when he prays to God, saying, "Look on my humility and my toil, and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).
Maximus The Confessor
#62. There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation.
Maximus The Confessor
#63. In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.
Maximus The Confessor
#64. If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he who abandons what is superior and devotes Himself to what is inferior shows that he values things made by God more than God Himself.
Maximus The Confessor
#65. What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
Maximus
#66. If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.
Maximus The Confessor
#67. Passing thoughts are like passing gas. They both arrive with a rumble, and the bad ones linger a little too long.
Maximus Freeman
#68. He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27).
Maximus The Confessor
#69. Changing one's personality is as simple as stopping the earth's rotation; changing another's is even harder.
Maximus Freeman
#70. Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.
Maximus The Confessor
#71. You can always run, but you can never hide from yourself...
Maximus Freeman
#72. Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.
Maximus The Confessor
#73. Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.
Maximus The Confessor
#74. Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.
Maximus The Confessor
#75. The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought on by various misfortunes. He who refuses them does not realize what they accomplish in this world or what he will gain from them when he departs this life.
Maximus The Confessor
#76. The truth about forever is that it never gets any closer or farther away.
Maximus Freeman
#77. Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth to them who have believed the slander.
Maximus The Confessor
#79. Resist nothing, allow everything, and surrender that which persists.
Maximus Freeman
#81. Love: allowing everyone and everything to Be exactly as they are(the perfect and complete fulfillment of their essence and potentiality). Be Love...
Maximus Freeman
#83. The aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form ... the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection.
Maximus The Confessor
#84. 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
#86. Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.
Maximus The Confessor
#87. Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you.
Maximus The Confessor
#88. Cooperate with the inevitable; we all have inherent limitations and will make mistakes.
Maximus Freeman
#89. He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone.
Maximus The Confessor
#90. Go with the ebbs and the flows, and allow this non-resistance to guide us to contentment.
Maximus Freeman
#91. To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
Fabius Maximus
#92. As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly
Maximus The Confessor
#93. It is our Spiritual nature to understand, accept and allow our human nature.
Maximus Freeman
#94. 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
#95. When you find your soulmate, the word relationship is redefined as Divine adventure.
Maximus Freeman
#96. While sitting on the hopper, in a blissful state of belieflessness, the Universe sent me this silly pun: Arrogant know-it-alls actually know nothing,
while humble know-nothings seem to know everything...
Maximus Freeman
#97. A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.
Maximus The Confessor
#98. When we judge others, the only one that we are truly defining is our self.
Maximus Freeman
#99. Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.
Maximus The Confessor
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