John Damascene
8th century · AD 749 · Eastern & Byzantine · 211 passages
The last of the Greek fathers; gathered earlier teaching into an orderly summary of the faith and defended sacred images.
In his own words on Proverbs
- Proverbs 18:3
The more those greater sins grow on them, the more does the soul become accustomed to them and think light of them. For it is said, "When the wicked comes to the depth of evil things, he thinks light of them."
BARLAAM AND JOSEPH 19:172
- Proverbs 22:28
He has revealed to us what it was expedient for us to know, whereas that which we were unable to bear he has withheld. With these things let us be content, and in them let us abide, and let us not step over the ancient bounds or pass beyond the divine tradition.
ORTHODOX FAITH 1:1
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.