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God Quotes by Clement of Alexandria
- For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an…
- 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…
- When you see your brother, you see God.
- Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to…
- All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing,…
- If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.
- What does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?
- Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'
- His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.
- The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.
- If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
- The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
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- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
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