To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern. — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and commands them to prophesy, and what they prophesy comes to pass. Demons also make predictions,… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Christ sits in the body at the right hand of God the Father, but we do not hold that the right hand of the… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever. — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. ... I do not worship matter. I worship the Creator of matter… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
“But this is what leads the heretics astray: that they look upon nature and person as the same thing” — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
I do not worship matter, I worship the God of matter, who became matter for my sake and deigned to inhabit matter, who worked… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
