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“Do you see? There exists a kind of knowledge that is without love. It does not purify the psyche in any way, but kills it, as it lacks the love that is the head, the body, and very root of all virtue.”

Gregory Palamas

Source: Holy Hesychia: The Stillness that Knows God, p. 33

“The summit of evil, the crime most natural to the devil, pride, was born of knowledge. But if this is so, how can it be possible that all the passions result from ignorance? Does knowledge purify the psyche? Paul says: Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up”

Gregory Palamas

1 Corinthians 8:1
Source: Holy Hesychia: The Stillness that Knows God, p. 33

“Famine means being deprived of and desiring necessary food. But there is something worse and more wretched than this famine: when someone is deprived of the necessary means of salvation and does not perceive his misfortune, having no desire to be saved.”

Gregory Palamas

Source: The Parables of Jesus: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas

“Anybody who thinks he is something great, even before God, is rightly abandoned by God, as one who thinks that he does not need His help.”

Gregory Palamas

Source: The Parables of Jesus: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas