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Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

Gregory of Nazianzus

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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.
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Worship the Trinity, which I call the only true devotion and saving doctrine.
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...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.
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We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.
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Christ is born: glorify Him. Christ comes from heaven: go out to meet Him. Christ descends to earth: let us be raised on high.
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The Godhead is, to speak concisely, undivided there is one mingling of Light, as it were of three suns joined to each other.
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The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.
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Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.
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Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.
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That which He has not assumed He has not healed.
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What He was, He laid aside what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.
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Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.
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To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure.
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Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.
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