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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Maximus the Confessor
Born: 580
Died: August 13, 662 (aged 82)
Bio: Maximus the Confessor, also known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople, was a Christian monk, theologian, and scholar.
Known for:
- Maximus Confessor: Selected Writings
- On the cosmic mystery of Jesus Christ
- The ascetic life
- Ambigua to Thomas: Second Letter to Thomas
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