Quotes from Gregory Palamas

...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.

The knowledge and contemplation that comes about through creatures is called 'natural law' Thus, even before the patriarchs and prophets and the written law, it summoned the human race and returned it to God, and showed indirectly the Creator to those who did not abandon the natural knowledge of the wise among the Greeks.

"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".