Clement Of Alexandria Quotes
Top 31 wise famous quotes and sayings by Clement Of Alexandria
Clement Of Alexandria Famous Quotes & Sayings
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But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.
Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
For why should not the wine of their own country satisfy men's desires, unless they were to import water also, like the foolish Persian kings?
When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.
The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.
For, in a word, if one thinks himself made beautiful by gold, he is inferior to gold; and he that is inferior to gold is not lord of it.
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness ... we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.