I seem indeed to hear that voice, from Him Who gathers together those who are broken, and welcomes the oppressed: I have… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
When one has looked upon Jesus, though he be of little stature like Zacchaeus of old (cf. Lk. 19:3), and climb up… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
As far as we can reach, He Who Is, and God, are the special names of His Essence; and of these especially He Who Is, not only because when He spoke to Moses in the mount, and Moses asked what His Name was, this was what He called Himself, bidding him say to the people 'I Am has sent me'… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share
But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should assert that He passed through the Virgin as through a channel, and was not at once divinely and humanly formed in her (divinely, because without the intervention of a man; humanly, because in accordance with the laws of… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share
What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God. — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the sins of each individual, and a complete cleansing from all the bruises and stains of sin. And since we are double-made, I mean of body and soul, and the one part is visible, the other invisible, so the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share
Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one of those who receive Him. Bid the gates be lifted up (cf. Ps. 24:7, 10), or be made higher, that they may receive Him, exalted after His Passion. Answer to those who are in doubt because He bears up with… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share
It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership. — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
