"Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those……" — Gregory of Nazianzus
"Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements."
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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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