Clement of Alexandria Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Soul, Appearance, Good Work

• 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.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Agency, Discipline, Soul

• Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Running, Strong, Prayer

  Clement of Alexandria (2015). “On the Salvation of the Rich Man”, p.1192, OrthodoxEbooks

• 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.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Religious, Wings, Voice

• 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.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Men, Light, Soul

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

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