Yuri-Rimsky

And he [St Maximos] said:
‘The Holy Spirit, through the apostle, condemns even angels who innovate in some way contrary to what is preached.’

V. God is Light: the highest, the unapproachable, the ineffable, That can neither be conceived in the intellect nor uttered with the lips, That giveth life to every reasoning creature. He is in the world of thought, what the sun is in the world of sense; presenting Himself to our intellects in proportion as we are cleansed; and loved in proportion as He is presented to our intellect; and again, conceived in proportion as we love Him; Himself contemplating and comprehending Himself, and pouring Himself out upon what is external to Him. That Light, I mean, which is contemplated in the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, Whose riches is Their unity of nature, and the one outleaping of Their brightness.

The entire population of the city stood from dawn to dusk waiting for the decision of the holy council [of Ephesus]. When they heard that the wretched man [Nestorius] was deposed, they all began, with one voice, to cry out in praise of the holy council, glorifying God because the enemy of the faith had fallen. When we came out of the church they made a procession ahead of us to the lodging house (for it was getting dark by this time) and even the women came out carrying incense to perfume the path before us. Our Saviour has demonstrated his power in the face of all who blaspheme his glory. Accordingly we will finish the legal papers necessary for his excommunication, and then by God’s grace we will soon be with you again.

Wait on the Lord; be thou manful, and let thy heart be strengthened, and wait on the Lord. (Psalm 26)

My heart said unto Thee: I will seek the Lord. (Psalm 26)

Not every man is wakened to wonder by what is said spiritually and has great power concealed in it. A word concerning virtue has need of a heart unbusied with the earth and its converse.

By serving the senses, the heart is turned away from delight in God; for our inward thoughts, they say, are bound by their perception to the sensory organs that serve them.
Doubting hesitation of the heart introduces cowardice into the soul, but faith can make firm her volition even in the cutting off of the body’s limbs. In the measure that love for the flesh prevails in you, you can never become brave and dauntless, on account of the host of adversaries that constantly surround the object of your love.

This is virtue: that in his mind a man should be unbusied with the world. The heart cannot become tranquil and be without imaginings as long as the senses are active. Outside of the desert [[and the wilderness]] the bodily passions do not abate, nor do evil thoughts cease.
Until the soul becomes drunk with faith in God by receiving a perception of faith’s power, she ((that is, the soul, which Saint Isaac always refers to in the feminine gender as being a composite part of the Bride of Christ; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Revelation 19:7)) can neither heal the malady of the senses, nor be able forcefully to tread visible matter underfoot, which is the barrier to things that are within and unperceived.