"It is not your outward appearance that you……" — Clement of Alexandria
"It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works."
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34 Quotes by Clement of Alexandria
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The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet,…
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Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.
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For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image…
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But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious…
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The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker…
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He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of…
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Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material,…
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The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
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When you see your brother, you see God.
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Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice…
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All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always…
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He changed sunset into sunrise.
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May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of…
— Al-Ghazali
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To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates…
— Paul Watson
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What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast…
— Walt Whitman
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It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the…
— Ellen G. White
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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with…
— William Blake
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For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for…
— Bhartrhari
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Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with…
— Dan Fogelberg
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Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning…
— Jean Kerr
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If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because…
— Isabel Allende
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The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold…
— Thomas Hood
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