Wisdom from St. John of Damascus

 
 
 

Of old, God the incorporeal and uncircumscribed was never depicted. Now, however, when God is seen clothed in flesh, and conversing with men, (Bar. 3.38) I make an image of the God whom I see. I do not worship matter, I [16] worship the God 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 honouring that matter which works my salvation.

- St. John of Damascus

quoted in, Three Treatises on the Divine Images: Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images

 

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