John Damascene Quotes

#1. Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

#2. Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.

Upton Sinclair

#3. 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

#4. The Son is the counsel and wisdom and power of the Father.

John Damascene

#5. I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.

Barbara Johnson

#6. 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

#7. Envy is pain over the good fortune of others.

John Damascene

#8. The Creator, then, being uncreated, is also wholly immutable. And what could this be other than Deity?

John Damascene

#9. It is a glorious privilege to be attending this, the greatest university in all the world ... take a good look and carefully analyze, and when you take the important points and sum them up, you come out with this final thought: Brigham Young University is the greatest university in the world.

Spencer W. Kimball

#10. But this is what leads the heretics astray: that they look upon nature and person as the same thing

John Damascene

#11. Okay, babe, I'm here.
The front door smashed opened, slamming against the wall - the man didn't know how to turn a knob?

Christy Reece

#12. 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

#13. Most people don't accept that they are an influence either improving or damaging others.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. 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

#15. 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