Pope Clement I Quotes
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We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our…
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Who can describe the bond of God's love? Who is able to explain the majesty of its beauty? The height to which love leads is…
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How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And…
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And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness,…
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Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in…
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Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.
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Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord.…
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This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake…
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Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.
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... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received - the…
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Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks…
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Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor…
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... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in…
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