“For we ought to think of God even more often than we draw our breath”

For we ought to think of God even more often than we draw our breath

Gregory of Nazianzus · The Orations, and Select Letters · NPNF2 VII, Oration XXVII, 5

The first Theological Oration, against men arguing about God in the street. Not less thought about God — less talk: he would hinder no one’s remembrance, "but only the talking about God".

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These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.

Read in Browne & Swallow, NPNF series 2 vol. 7 (1893) · Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow

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