Top 25 Damascene Quotes
#2. The Creator, then, being uncreated, is also wholly immutable. And what could this be other than Deity?
John Damascene
#3. Innocence walks hand-in-hand with ignorance. How insight never clarifies, only complicates.
Jo Nesbo
#4. all the statements made about God that imply body have some hidden meaning and teach us what is above us by means of something familiar to ourselves, with the exception of any statement concerning the bodily sojourn of the God-Word.
John Damascene
#5. We don't just want to win the Super Bowl, we want to make a dynasty. I want to be a player who makes that a reality.
Shaun Alexander
#6. Smoke a cigar. Sophie had heard him come in and found him there. She was surprised he
Danielle Steel
#7. The angel energises in different places by the quickness of his nature and the promptness and speed by which he can change his place: but the Deity, Who is everywhere and above all, energises at the same time in diverse ways with one simple energy.
John Damascene
#8. Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.
George Lucas
#9. I think I'm going through a bit of ADD. I'm reading 3 books simultaneously and it's something that I don't recommend. It's like watching TV with two others who keep changing the channels...
S.J. Romero
#10. Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.
Camille Paglia
#11. It must not be supposed that the heavens or the luminaries are endowed with life(3). For they are inanimate and insensible(4). So that when the divine Scripture saith, Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad(5), it is the angels in heaven and the men on earth that are invited to rejoice.
John Damascene
#12. God's being is unitary; it is not composed of a number of parts working harmoniously, but simply one. There is nothing in His justice which forbids the exercise of His mercy.
A.W. Tozer
#13. There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Roger Caras
#14. But this is what leads the heretics astray: that they look upon nature and person as the same thing
John Damascene
#16. It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. For generation means that the begetter produces out of his essence offspring similar in essence. But creation and making mean that the creator and maker produces from that which is external, and not out of his own essence, a creation of an absolutely dissimilar nature(3).
John Damascene
#18. The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God ... The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.
Ibn Ata Allah
#19. This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.
Dustin Hoffman
#20. No one has rightly sought the truth who has not encountered at the end of this search - whether to accept or reject Him - our Lord, Jesus Christ, "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," Truth that stands against the world and is a reproach to all worldliness. - Eugene Rose
Damascene Christensen
#21. Experience was static in the valley; it was older than time itself, for time was a thing of but two generations, dated by moons and ending with the day in which he found himself.
Peter Matthiessen
#22. The Son is the counsel and wisdom and power of the Father.
John Damascene
#23. In Damascus:
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ...
Mahmoud Darwish
#24. it is quite impossible for us men clothed about with this dense covering of flesh to understand or speak of the divine and lofty and immaterial energies of the Godhead, except by the use of images and types and symbols derived from our own life(7).
John Damascene
#25. In Damascus:
the traveler sings to himself:
I return from Syria
neither alive
nor dead
but as clouds
that ease the butterfly's burden
from my fugitive soul
Mahmoud Darwish
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