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.
St. Maximos the Confessor
The Philokalia Vol. 2; Faber and Faber pg. 53
St. Maximos the Confessor
The Philokalia Vol. 2; Faber and Faber pg. 53
