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I Cor Quotes by Symeon the New Theologian
- Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and…
- ... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind…
More I Cor Quotes
- The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37… — Unknown Author
- ...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite,… — Pope Dionysius
- Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there… — John Cassian
- There have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through Whom the generation of the birth of believers… — Gregory of Nyssa
- ... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb… — Lorenzo Scupoli
- ...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses… — Gregory of Nazianzus
- No one has yet discovered or ever shall discover what God is in His nature and essence... we shall, in time to… — Gregory of Nazianzus
- The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be… — John of Kronstadt
- ...the grace of the Spirit takes possession of the quiet soul, and gives it a taste of the unspeakable good things to… — Gregory Palamas
- Should thoughts of self-praise, of self-satisfaction, occur to you, say: 'I myself am nothing; all that is good in me is accomplished… — John of Kronstadt
- Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ.… — Maximus the Confessor
- Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been… — Maximus the Confessor