If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons. — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And… — 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 Father is actual place. For how could He that is uncircumscribed have a right hand limited by place? But we understand the right hand of the Father to be the glory and honor of the Godhead… — John of Damascus Copy Share
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 poor; anger by goodwill and love for all men; worldly dejection by spiritual joy; listlessness by patience, perseverance and offering thanks to God; self-esteem by doing good in secret and by praying constantly with a contrite… — John of Damascus Copy Share
Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a root, and of the Son as a branch, and the Spirit as a fruit, for the substance in these three… — John of Damascus Copy Share
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 who became matter for my sake, who willed to take His abode in matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. Never will I cease honoring the matter which wrought my salvation! I honor it, but… — John of Damascus Copy Share
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
