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Gregory of Nazianzus Quotes: It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.
         

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.


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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.

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.



Remember God more often than you breathe.

Remember God more often than you breathe.



We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.



The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.



That which He has not assumed He has not healed.

That which He has not assumed He has not healed.





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