"Just as at sea those who are carried……" — Gregory of Nyssa
"Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will."
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Gregory of Nyssa
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23 Quotes by Gregory of Nyssa
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That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable…
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As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone…
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The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.
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If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in…
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Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness,…
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Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.
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Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
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Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is…
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The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the…
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For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of…
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If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they…
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Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature…
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Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile…
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A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could…
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Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More…
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True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their…
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With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I…
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To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is…
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