Clement Of Alexandria Quotes

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around His waist - He, who is the Lord of the universe!

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.

Prayer is happy company with God.

GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

When you see your brother, you see God.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

Explain the Scriptures by the Scriptures.

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.

When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.

Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.

He who knows himself knows god.

Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.

But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.

Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.

It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.

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.'

He changed sunset into sunrise.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals.

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.

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.

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.