“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
“What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we should posit and ascribe to it all the affirmations we make in regard to beings, and, more appropriately, we should negate all these affirmations, since It surpasses all being. Now we should not conclude that the negations are simply the opposites of the affirmations, but rather that the cause of all is considerably prior to this, beyond privations, beyond every denial, beyond every assertion.” ShouldSaidChristianCausesOppositesRegardDenialOrthodoxAffirmationOrthodox ChristianAssertionNegation Author:Pope Dionysius
“One can take eternity and time to be predicates of God since, being the Ancient of Days, He is the cause of all time and eternity. Yet He is before time and beyond time and is the source of the variety of time and of the seasons. Or again, He precedes the eternal ages, for He is there before eternity and above eternity, and 'His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom' (Ps. 145:13). Amen.” AgeChristianCausesSourceEternalSeasonsEternityAncientKingdomsAll TimeVarietyOrthodoxEverlastingOrthodox ChristianAmen 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
