Gregory Of Nazianzus Quotes
Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.
We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.
I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.
What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.
Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.
It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.
It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides.
...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.
Christ is born: glorify Him. Christ comes from heaven: go out to meet Him. Christ descends to earth: let us be raised on high.
We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.
The Godhead is, to speak concisely, undivided there is one mingling of Light, as it were of three suns joined to each other.