I Cor Quotes
16 quotes by 11 authors
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The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean…
— Francis Turretin
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...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable…
— Pope Dionysius
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Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that…
— John Cassian
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There have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through Whom the generation of the birth of believers takes place, and…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
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...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…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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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…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be temperate to the…
— John of Kronstadt
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...the grace of the Spirit takes possession of the quiet soul, and gives it a taste of the unspeakable good things to come, which no…
— Gregory Palamas
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Should thoughts of self-praise, of self-satisfaction, occur to you, say: 'I myself am nothing; all that is good in me is accomplished by the grace…
— John of Kronstadt
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Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ. For only they…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what…
— Maximus the Confessor
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As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to…
— Saint Basil
Who Wrote These I Cor Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 16 I Cor Quotes as follows: