He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.
John of DamascusDevotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.
John of DamascusThe day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.
John of DamascusThink of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a root, and of the Son as a branch, and the Spirit as a fruit, for the substance in these three is one. The Father is a sun with the Son as rays and the Holy Ghost as heat.
John of Damascus