It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body. Clement of Alexandria More Quotes by Clement of Alexandria More Quotes From Clement of Alexandria If in this life there are so many ways for purification and repentance, how much more should there be after death! The purification of souls, when separated from the body, will be easier. We can set no limits to the agency of the Redeemer; to redeem, to rescue, to discipline, is his work, and so will he continue to operate after this life. Clement of Alexandria agency discipline soul He who knows himself knows god. Clement of Alexandria knowing-god knows When you see your brother, you see God. Clement of Alexandria your-brother diversity brother The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise. Clement of Alexandria sunrise sunset catholic Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings. Clement of Alexandria wrongdoing violence christian His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator. Clement of Alexandria instructors son jesus The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him. Clement of Alexandria righteous-man kings men When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female. Clement of Alexandria males female two Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul. Clement of Alexandria strong prayer running Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others. Clement of Alexandria dresses heart looks But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both fall,-the men by being excited to look, they by drawing on themselves the eyes of the men. Clement of Alexandria eye mean fall 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. Clement of Alexandria toil scripture excellent He changed sunset into sunrise. Clement of Alexandria sunrise sunset changed 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.' Clement of Alexandria church christian men 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. Clement of Alexandria vegetables nuts animal 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? Clement of Alexandria modesty doe thinking We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God. Clement of Alexandria light soul men I think that one must approach the Logos Savior, not induced by the fear of punishment and not in the expectation of some kind of a reward, but primarily for the sake of the good in itself. Such will stand on the right in the sanctuary. Clement of Alexandria punishment christian thinking It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals. Clement of Alexandria graveyard body animal For the Divine Being cannot be declared as it exists: but as we who are fettered in the flesh were able to listen, so the prophets spake to us; the Lord savingly accommodating Himself to the weakness of men. Clement of Alexandria able flesh men
