December 12th, 2005 I found Thomas Tallis in the dried winter grass today, a 40-voice motet devoid of chlorophyll, building a glass cathedral of its own. I have never put my hope in any other but in you, O God of Israel, who can show both anger and graciousness, and who absolves all the sins of suffering man. Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, be mindful of our lowliness.
Seats in an empty agora: the future was too bright, and we didn’t have shades! Print available here.
“He who does not grasp the inner principles of created beings fails to feast his intellect on the manifold wisdom of God.” ~ St Maximos the Confessor (Available as a print here.)
“No, the world did not come into being of itself, because out of nothing, nothing is derived, and thus we have to reject as unfounded the idea of automatic or spontaneous genesis. … Nothing is zero, and zero has no force. But put an entity, a unit, in front of it and 0 becomes 10, and 00, 100; and 000, 1000 and so on. This unit, then, the Triune God, turned 0 into the world…” ~ Athanasios Frangopoulos “… nothing is better than to realize one’s weakness and ignorance, and nothing is worse than not to be aware of them.” ~ St Peter of Damascus “God made us so that we might become ‘partakers of the divine nature’ (2 Peter 1:4) and sharers in His eternity, and so that we might come to be like Him (cf. 1 John 3:2) through deification by grace. It is through deification that all things are reconstituted and achieve their permanence; and it is for its sake that what is not is brought into being and given existence.” ~ St Maximos the Confessor “The foundation of every virtue is the realization of human weakness.” ~ St Maximos the Confessor “The Lord gave clear evidence [...]
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