Top 37 John Of Damascus Quotes
#1. In the seventh century, John of Damascus described the relationship of the three persons of God as perichoresis. This word literally means the circle dance.
Tobin Wilson
#2. The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the weight of Canon, however they were neither paper-like nor mere 'pellets'."
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#3. It was from us they learnt the secret of life: that we grow old without growing wise. They realized that nothing happened when we grew up: no blinding light on the road to Damascus, no sudden feeling of maturity.
John Le Carre
#4. The life cycle of public disgrace has been condensed to where the actual offense gets washed away, leaving just a neutral sheen of notoriety.
Mark Leibovich
#5. Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.
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#6. I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.
Lewis Hine
#7. The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives,
Katharine Hamnett
#9. I can't sleep during the nights; I feel carrying the world on my shoulders.
M.F. Moonzajer
#10. The first kind is the worship of latreia, which we give to God, who alone is adorable by nature, and this worship is shown in several ways, and first by the worship of servants. All created things worship Him, as servants their master. "All things serve Thee," (Ps. 119.91) the psalm says.
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#11. Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.
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#12. Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.
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#13. He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] "anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President."
Mike Huckabee
#14. To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern.
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#15. The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.
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#16. Rain is nature's art; umbrella is man's art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few ? those who are virtuous and holy, and have imitated the goodness of God to the limit of human powers ? possess that which is according to the likeness of God.
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#19. Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#20. I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.
David Lucero
#21. I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.
Courteney Cox
#22. Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.
David Hockney
#23. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d
Amanda Lovelace
#24. The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.
James Cook
#25. Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.
Martin Luther
#26. I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.
Jaron Lanier
#27. Now all things have been filled with light, both heaven and earth and those beneath the earth; so let all creation sing Christ's rising, by which it is established.
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#28. An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.
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#29. He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.
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#30. We shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good? Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness?
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#31. In former times, God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen in the flesh conversing with men, I make an image of the God whom I see. I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.
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#32. That was one of the problems of marrying into wealth; there were no luxuries.
Len Deighton
#33. Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.
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#34. I kept watching the trees, as if I could see them grow or something. They didn't. The only thing that grew was their shadows.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#35. I do not worship matter, I worship the God of matter, who became matter for my sake and deigned to inhabit matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. I will not cease from honoring that matter which works for my salvation. I venerate it, though not as God.
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#36. And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.
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#37. O Mother of God! If I place my confidence in thee, I shall be saved; if I am under thy protection, I have nothing to fear; for the fact of being thy client is a possession of a certainty of salvation which God grants only to those whom He intends to save.
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