"Do you conceive of your Lord as less……" — Gregory of Nazianzus
"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 Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?... If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?"
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Gregory of Nazianzus
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50 Quotes by Gregory of Nazianzus
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To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air…
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For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.
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Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere,…
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Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the…
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He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity…
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Remember God more often than you breathe.
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These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in…
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Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither…
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Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification…
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Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon,…
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That which He has not assumed He has not healed.
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Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your…
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
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