"We were made for good works (cf. Phil.……" — Gregory of Nazianzus
"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 be."
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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…
- For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.
- Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere,…
- Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the…
- He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity…
- Remember God more often than you breathe.
- These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in…
- Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither…
- Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification…
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- That which He has not assumed He has not healed.
- Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.
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