The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
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
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane.… — 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
