“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

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Monk and archbishop 1296–1359

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