Gregory Palamas Quotes

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• ...every day we should stand in awe of Him, as He is with us, and do what is pleasing before Him. If we are unable…
• Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement, and in His…
• The Light of Christ illumines all,
• While He [the Lord Jesus] was sitting alone by the well, 'There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water' (John 4:7). As man, the…
• Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of…
• You should secretly give from what you have to those in need, so that you receive from God, Who sees in secret, a hundred times…
• The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and the prelude of…
• We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon…
• When we become incorruptible and immortal and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the Lord, gaining fulfillment…
• The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not just the human…
• Let none of you have a soul which is barren and without fruit. Let nobody be unloving or unreceptive to the spiritual seed. May each…
• It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What…
• Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and…
• If... we choose death rather than true life, God does not take away the power that He gave us. And not only does He not…
• The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even…
• ... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and…
• ... we can see both that love for God is begotten from the virtues and that virtues are born of love. For this reason the…
• Life of the soul is union with God, as life of the body is union with the soul. As the soul was separated from God…
• ... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance of the intellect.…
• ... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How…

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