“'Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights' (Jms. 1:17). But there is something more. Inspired by the Father, each procession of the Light spreads itself generously toward us, and, in its power to unify, it stirs us by lifting us up. It returns us back to the oneness and deifying simplicity of the Father who gathers us in. For, as the sacred Word says, 'from Him and to Him are all things' (Rom. 11:36).” LightChristianFatherPerfectReturnAll ThingsSacredInspiredVery GoodSimplicitySpreadOnenessOrthodoxLiftingEndowmentProcession Author:Pope Dionysius
“We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond every assertion, being the perfect and unique cause of all things, and, by virtue of Its preeminently simple and absolute nature, free of every limitation, beyond every limitation; it is also beyond every denial.” ChristianNextCausesSimplePerfectVirtueDivineUniqueAll ThingsAbsolutesLimitationDenialOrthodoxOrthodox ChristianAssertionDivine Nature Author:Pope Dionysius
“The title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order.” ChristianOrderGivenAll ThingsDuesTitlesProportionAppropriateOrthodoxRighteousnessArrangementsFittingOrthodox Christian Author:Pope Dionysius
“...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing Itself, can hardly be ignorant of the things which proceed from It and of which It is the source. This, then, is how God knows all things, not by understanding things, but by understanding Himself.” KnowsDoeChristianCausesUnderstandingCommonKnowingSourceCreaturesAll ThingsUniversalIgnorantOrthodoxGod KnowsUnderstanding Things Author:Pope Dionysius
