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• Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

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  Christian, Men, Church

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• I think that one must approach the Logos Savior, not induced by the fear of punishment and not in the expectation of some kind of a reward, but primarily for the sake of the good in itself. Such will stand on the right in the sanctuary.

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  Christian, Thinking, Punishment

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• We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God.

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  Men, Light, Soul

  Clement of Alexandria (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Clement of Alexandria (Illustrated)”, p.664, Delphi Classics

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• But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both fall,-the men by being excited to look, they by drawing on themselves the eyes of the men.

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  Fall, Eye, Mean

  Clement of Alexandria (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Clement of Alexandria (Annotated Edition)”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

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  Kings, Men, Righteous Man

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 104), 1895.

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• If in this life there are so many ways for purification and repentance, how much more should there be after death! The purification of souls, when separated from the body, will be easier. We can set no limits to the agency of the Redeemer; to redeem, to rescue, to discipline, is his work, and so will he continue to operate after this life.

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  Agency, Discipline, Soul

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• We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.

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  Hands, Benefits, Use

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• His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.

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  Jesus, Son, Instructors

  Clement of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (1994). “The Instructor”, p.54, Aeterna Press

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• When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.

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  Two, Males, Female

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• He changed sunset into sunrise.

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  Sunset, Sunrise, Changed

  Clement of Alexandria (2017). “Collected Works”, p.94, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.

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  Animal, Vegetables, Nuts

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• But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.

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  Toil, Scripture, Excellent

  Clement of Alexandria (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Clement of Alexandria (Illustrated)”, p.1025, Delphi Classics

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• It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals.

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  Animal, Body, Graveyard

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• If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

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  Thinking, Doe, Modesty

  "The Instructor (Complete)".

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• But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

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  Religious, Art, Honor

  Clement of Alexandria (2012). “Exhortation to the Heathen”, p.361, OrthodoxEbooks

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• For the Divine Being cannot be declared as it exists: but as we who are fettered in the flesh were able to listen, so the prophets spake to us; the Lord savingly accommodating Himself to the weakness of men.

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  Men, Flesh, Able

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating an image of them here on earth]. Nor is there at all any composite thing or creature endowed with sensation [made by God here on earth] like those in heaven. But the face is a symbol of the rational soul, the wings are the lofty ministers and energies of powers right and left, and the voice is delightful glory in endless contemplation.

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  Religious, Wings, Voice

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• The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

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  Religious, Father, Law

  Clement of Alexandria (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Clement of Alexandria (Illustrated)”, p.557, Delphi Classics

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• For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an image that is perceived by the mind alone: God, who alone is truly God.

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  Religious, Hands, Mind

  Clement of Alexandria (2017). “Collected Works”, p.54, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

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  Men, Understanding, Body

  Clement of Alexandria (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Clement of Alexandria (Illustrated)”, p.663, Delphi Classics

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• Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you perfect the art, it partakes of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred and divine.

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  Religious, Art, Perfect

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• He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

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  Father, Able, Sin

  "'Noble Thoughts in Noble Language" edited by Henry Southgate, (p. 2), 1871.

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