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If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

Clement of Alexandria

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Clement of Alexandria
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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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His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.
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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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It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals.
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And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
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The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.
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When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
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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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If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.
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When you see your brother, you see God.
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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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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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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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