Top 29 Gregory Of Nazianzus Quotes
#2. 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.
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#3. We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Christ is born: glorify Him. Christ comes from heaven: go out to meet Him. Christ descends to earth: let us be raised on high.
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#8. All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living
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#9. It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.
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#10. 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 ...
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#11. 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.
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#12. Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.
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#13. For nothing is so pleasant to men as talking of other people's business, especially under the influence of affection or hatred, which often almost entirely blinds us to the truth.
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#14. Grace is given not to them who speak [their faith] but to those who live their faith.
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#15. 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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#16. God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.
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#18. He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher perfection dominated, resulting in my becoming God as fully as he became man.
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#19. A disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.
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#20. God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it's not likely that, like some painter, He conjured up an image from a similar image, having seen beforehand things which His own one mind did not write.
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#21. 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.
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#22. These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.
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#23. Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.
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#24. 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.
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#25. The Godhead is, to speak concisely, undivided there is one mingling of Light, as it were of three suns joined to each other.
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#26. If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.
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#27. Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in the noble race (cf. Jn. 20:3-4). And even if you be beaten in speed, win the victory of zeal; not looking into the tomb, but going in.
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#29. Worship the Trinity, which I call the only true devotion and saving doctrine.
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