Quotes by Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nazianzus

…a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect – deeds show dispositions.

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Deeds

Giving

…though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless… to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit and, careless of the cost, it tries a second tack. Either it looks at things visible and makes of these a god – a gross mistake, for what visible thing is more sublime, more godlike, than its observer… – or else it discovers God through the beauty and order of things seen, using sight as a guide to what transcends sight without losing God through the grandeur of what it sees.

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Mistake

Tired

Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.

Christian

Men

Names

Do not delay in coming to grace, but hasten, lest the robber outstrip you, lest the adulterer pass you by, lest the insatiate be satisfied before you, lest the murderer seize the blessing first, or the publican or the fornicator, or any of these violent ones who take the Kingdom of heaven by force (cf. Mt. 11:12). For it suffers violence willingly, and is tyrannized over through goodness.

Blessing

Cfs

Christian

For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.

Compelled

God Love

Prayer

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

Catholic

Giving

Saint

God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it’s not likely that, like some painter, He conjured up an image from a similar image, having seen beforehand things which His own one mind did not write.

Christian

Mind

Writing

He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher perfection dominated, resulting in my becoming God as fully as he became man.

Men

Perfection

Spiritual

I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.

Splendor

Thinking

Three

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should assert that He passed through the Virgin as through a channel, and was not at once divinely and humanly formed in her (divinely, because without the intervention of a man; humanly, because in accordance with the laws of gestation), he is in like manner godless.

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Mother

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Quotes by Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nazianzus

…a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect – deeds show dispositions.

Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.

For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it’s not likely that, like some painter, He conjured up an image from a similar image, having seen beforehand things which His own one mind did not write.

He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher perfection dominated, resulting in my becoming God as fully as he became man.

I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.

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