Clement of Alexandria famous quotes

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!
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Jesus #Feet #Towels

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

#Soul #Appearance #Good Work

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Sunset #Sunrise #Lord

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Inspirational #Hope

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

#Christian #Perfect #Rules Of Life

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

#Heart #Dresses #Looks

He changed sunset into sunrise.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Sunset #Sunrise #Changed

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.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Ignorance #Self #Injustice

When you see your brother, you see God.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Brother #Diversity

What does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Thinking #Doe #Modesty

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

#Lying #Air #Catholic

We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Hands #Use #Benefits

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

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

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

#Rivers #Sides #Spirituality

'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
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Jesus #Children #Blood

Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Christian #Violence #Wrongdoing

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

#Fall #Mean #Eye

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Father #Able #Sin

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, if order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Art #Children #Mean

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she isa woman.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Shame #Should #Filled

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Kings #Men #Coins

For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an image that is perceived by the mind alone: God, who alone is truly God.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Religious #Hands #Mind

His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Jesus #Son #Instructors

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

#Plato #Writing #Greek

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Religious #Art #Honor

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

#Animal #Vegetables #Nuts

The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Religious #Father #Law

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

#Christian #Men #Church

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.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Hymns #Singing #Life Is Like

Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you perfect the art, it partakes of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred and divine.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Religious #Art #Perfect

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

#Country #People #Heaven

He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating an image of them here on earth]. Nor is there at all any composite thing or creature endowed with sensation [made by God here on earth] like those in heaven. But the face is a symbol of the rational soul, the wings are the lofty ministers and energies of powers right and left, and the voice is delightful glory in endless contemplation.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Religious #Creating #Wings

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

#Would Be #Profit #Righteous

Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Running #Strong #Prayer

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

#Christian #Thinking #Punishment

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

#Men #May #Word Of God