“Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice.

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The Lord said to His disciples: there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. (Mark 9:1), And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John, ... and ascended to Mount Tabor, ... and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. (Matt 17:1-2). But they could no longer look and had no power to gaze intently at this radiance, [and therefore] prostrated themselves on the earth. Nevertheless, they saw, according to the promise of the Savior, the Kingdom of God, that Divine and indescribable Light. The great Gregory and Basil call him the Deity. "Light is the Divine revealed ... on the mountain" and "The kindness of the truly Mighty is the intelligible and contemplated Divine." For Basil the Great says that the Light is the Kindness of God, contemplated only by the saints in the power of the Divine Spirit. Therefore, he says again: "Peter and the sons of Gromov saw His Kindness on the mountain ... which was brighter than the sunshine, and were honored to behold with their eyes the foreknowledge of His glorious Coming." And Damascus the Evangelist and John Chrysostom call that Light the natural radiance of the Divine. The first writes: "The Son, born of the Father, has in Himself a beginningless and natural radiance ... and the glory of the Divine also becomes the glory of the body." [father] Chrysostomos says: "The Lord appeared on the mountain in His highest radiance when the Divine revealed His glory."

St. Gregory Palamas(~ 1296-1357)

Archbishop of Thessaloniki, Christian mystic, Byzantine theologian and philosopher, author of the doctrine of the uncreated light, systematizer and creator of the philosophical substantiation of the practice of hesychasm, father and teacher of the Church.

Memorial days: November 14 ( 27 )