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.

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

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

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

All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.

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

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

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!

We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do good, and they have been provided by God for the good of men: they are at hand and serve as the material, the instruments for a good use in the hand of him who knows how to use them.

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

Explain the Scriptures by the Scriptures.

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

Prayer is happy company with God.

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

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

When you see your brother, you see God.

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

He who knows himself knows god.

'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh and pours out his blood, and nothing is lacking for the growth of his children

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

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

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

Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.

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

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.'