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Maximus the Confessor Quotes: Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.
         

Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.


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