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… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share
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… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share
If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty,… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“Now Aristotle says that the judgment which follows knowledge is in truth faith. Accordingly, faith is something superior to knowledge, and is its criterion.… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor… He is God and Creator. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
