Frasi di Gregorio Palamas (16 frasi) | Citazioni e frasi celebri

Gregorio Palamas: 16 citazioni0 Mi piace

Gregorio Palamas frasi celebri

“Colui che ha fatto uscire tutto dal nulla, le realtà della terra come quelle del cielo, vedendo che a causa del loro desiderio di essere qualcosa di più, le sue creature ragionevoli sono diventate vuote, Egli fa loro dono di se stesso nella grazia.”

Gregorio Palamas

Omelie

“Niente fra gli eventi che si sono svolti dall'inizio del mondo sotto lo sguardo di Dio, niente è così vantaggioso per noi, niente è più divino di tutto quello che riguarda la nascita di Cristo che oggi festeggiamo.”

Gregorio Palamas

Omelie

“Ora che è nato il Cristo, il maligno è calpestato da coloro che una volta giacevano sotto i suoi piedi, è vinto da coloro che hanno smesso di nutrire sentimenti di orgoglio come suggeriva il nemico, e che al contrario sono attratti da ciò che è umile, secondo le parole e le opere del Salvatore, e grazie all'umiltà, ottengono di essere innalzati al di sopra del mondo.”

Gregorio Palamas

Omelie

Gregorio Palamas: Frasi in inglese

“The soul completely dominated by its desire for spiritual instruction is never sated.”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

The Philokalia Vol. 4, Faber and Faber.

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

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

“The soul completely dominated by its desire for spiritual instruction is never sated.It is because of this that Wisdom says of herself, 'Those who eat Me will still be hungry' (Eccles. 24:21); while the Lord, who has instilled this divine desire in the soul, says of Mary who chose 'what is best' that it will not be taken away from her (cf. Luke 10:42).”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

Origine: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 295

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

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

“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”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

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

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

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

“Some people, because their minds have gone so long without nourishment, lose their desire to eat and so do not notice the harm they are suffering.”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

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

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

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

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

Origine: 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

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

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

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

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

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

“How can someone have the freedom to choose and the power to act freely, unless he were able to be evil, should he so wish?”

Help us translate this quote

Gregory Palamas

Predestination? On Why God Made Those Who Would Perish

Autori simili

Costantino XI di Bisanzio2

imperatore bizantino None

Tommaso da Kempis12

monaco tedesco None

Aelredo di Rievaulx11

monaco e scrittore inglese None

Colombano di Bobbio3

abate, monaco e missionario irlandese None

Isidoro di Siviglia6

teologo, scrittore e arcivescovo cattolico spagnolo None

Bernardo di Chiaravalle20

religioso, abate e teologo francese None

Isacco di Ninive52

monaco, mistico, religioso (vescovo di Ninive) None

Papa Gregório I15

64° vescovo di Roma e papa della Chiesa cattolica None

Giovanni Climaco18

monaco (monaco cristiano) None

Simeone il nuovo teologo7

monaco e mistico bizantino None

Autori simili

Costantino XI di Bisanzio2

imperatore bizantino None

Tommaso da Kempis12

monaco tedesco None

Aelredo di Rievaulx11

monaco e scrittore inglese None

Colombano di Bobbio3

abate, monaco e missionario irlandese None

Isidoro di Siviglia6

teologo, scrittore e arcivescovo cattolico spagnolo None