Palamas Quotes

#1. When the discussion threatened to overheat, Palamas calmed it down by saying politely: "Had we been able to agree in debate we might as well have been of one faith." To which he received the revealing reply: "There will be a time when we shall all agree."11

Mark Mazower

#2. Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts 'proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness' (Mk. 7:21) and so on ? these are what motivate people.

Gregory Palamas

#3. Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

Confucius

#4. Did you hear? You are free.
Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

Libba Bray

#5. 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 us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.

Gregory Palamas

#6. If I audition for a job that I don't get, to be honest with you, I'd rather my friend get it. I think there also has to be an acknowledgement of the fact that, as an actor, being in employment is not the norm.

Ben Schnetzer

#7. One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted.

E. M. Forster

#8. 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 substance which He assumed for our sake, but every person who is found worthy of communion with Him.

Gregory Palamas

#9. Competition is a sin.

John D. Rockefeller

#10. I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.

Sean Kingston

#11. The passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How can you have faith in Me when you receive honour from one another and do not seek for the honour that comes from the only God?' (cf. Jn. 5:44).

Gregory Palamas

#12. I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.

Siobhan Davis

#13. I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.

Renee Fleming

#14. If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

Cameron Conaway

#15. 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 benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion?

Gregory Palamas

#16. The Light of Christ illumines all,

Gregory Palamas

#17. Although divided in His various powers and energies, in each of His works the Holy Spirit is wholly present and active, undividedly divided, partaken of while remaining complete, like the sun's ray.

Gregory Palamas

#18. The wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

Gregory Palamas

#19. We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win arguments but to win souls ... Such an apologetic will need to breathe a spirit of humanity, that humility and compassion which understand the anxieties and questions of people.

Pope John Paul II

#20. It's dark. You exhale a fist of memory. I love you like weathering wood in a room of empty pianos. When you return to something you love, it's already beyond repair. You wear it broken.

James L. White

#21. The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again whence He came, having united things below with things above and formed one Church, at the same time heavenly and earthly, to the glory of His love for mankind.

Gregory Palamas

#22. 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 more, as well as life eternal in the age to come (cf. Mt. 6:4; Mk. 10:30).

Gregory Palamas

#23. Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day ... and rightly so.

Sue Grafton

#24. Music becomes flesh and thrives in a new world, a new man . . .

He, the last-born, son of music and love, shall arise in triumph over an ample land, prophet of a soul yet more ample . . .

Kostis Palamas

#25. "I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".

Gregory Palamas