Hilary of Poitiers ✓

(0314–0366) theologian

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[Wikidata] Bishop of Poitiers (c. 310 – c. 367)... | [Wikipedia] Hilary of Poitiers or St Hilarius was Bishop of Poitiers and a Doctor of the Church. He was sometimes referred to as the "Hammer of the Arians" and the "Athanasius of the West". His name comes from the Latin word for happy or cheerful. Prior to his conversion to Christianity, Hilary married someone,

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• The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered… Boat
• Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification… All
• For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true… Arbitrary
• The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable. God
• In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to… Activity
• The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you. Chief
• [Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the… All

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