Gregory Palamas: Quotes about God

Gregory Palamas was Monk and archbishop. Explore interesting quotes on god.

Gregory Palamas: 26 quotes 0 likes

“Anyone who considers himself guilty before God and repents must believe that the reproach and contempt of others towards him is just and to be endured.”

Gregory Palamas

Source: Homilies (Mount Tabor Publishing), p. 13

God

“As the separation of the soul from the body is the death of the body, so the separation of God from the soul is the death of the soul. And this death of the soul is the true death.”

Gregory Palamas

Source: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 296

Soul , Death , God

“Thanksgiving for the benefits received from God is made acceptable by humility and not looking down on those who lack them. It is rendered unacceptable, however, by being conceited, as if those benefits resulted from our own efforts and knowledge, and by condemning those who have not received them.”

Gregory Palamas

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

God , Knowledge , Effort

“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

God , Help , Thinking

“Let us take off our life’s complex covering of rapacity and greed, since it is ugly in God’s sight and condemned, and let us put on, as the elect of God, compassion, humility, modesty and meekness.”

Gregory Palamas

Source: Predestination? On Why God Made Those Who Would Perish

Life , God

“Anyone who states that God should not have made those people who will be punished, is also saying that He should not have made those who will be saved, or any rational and free beings at all.”

Gregory Palamas

Source: Predestination? On Why God Made Those Who Would Perish

God , People