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- Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great…
- Can anyone be a father without beginning to be one? Yes, one who did not begin his existence. What begins to exist begins to be…
- God always was, and always is, and always will be. Or rather, God always Is. For Was and Will be are fragments of our time,…
- All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God…
- 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,…
- There is One God and One Mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ (cf. I Tim. 2:5). For He still pleads even now…
- 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.…
- Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in the…
- Do not delay in coming to grace, but hasten, lest the robber outstrip you, lest the adulterer pass you by, lest the insatiate be satisfied…
- We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might…
- When one has looked upon Jesus, though he be of little stature like Zacchaeus of old (cf. Lk. 19:3), and climb up on the top…
- May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never…
- Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles…
- God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it's not likely that, like…
- Let us quake before the great Spirit, Who is my God, Who has made me know God, Who is God there above, and Who forms…
- If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving nothing superior to…
- I seem indeed to hear that voice, from Him Who gathers together those who are broken, and welcomes the oppressed: I have given you up,…
- The Son is 'Life' (Jn. 14:6) because He is 'Light', constituting and giving reality to every thinking being. 'For in Him we live, move and…
- Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No,…
- ...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with…
- ...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.
- How is it... that the Son and Holy Spirit are not co-unoriginate with the Father, if they are co-eternal with Him? Because they are from…
- It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.
- No one has yet discovered or ever shall discover what God is in His nature and essence... we shall, in time to come, 'know as…
- ...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit…
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