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Quotes on Orthodoxy / St. John of Damascus

“I do not worship matter.”

In former times, God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen in the flesh conversing with men, I make an image of the God whom I see.
I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake and deigned to inhabit matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. I will not cease from honoring that matter which works for my salvation. I venerate it, though not as God.

St. John of Damascus


Featured image: from The Complete Works of St. John of Damascus. Translated by Jacques de Billy. Published 1619, Paris