Sayings

The sentences people remember, checked against the book: 121 sayings.

• “For a rock is every disciple of Christ of whom those drank who drank of the spiritual…”
• “We may therefore make bold to say that the Gospels are the first fruits of all the…”
• “But if you suppose that upon that one Peter only the whole church is built by God, what…”
• “And Peter, on whom the Church of Christ is built, against which the gates of hell shall…”
• “The children of the philosophers speak of geometry and music and grammar and rhetoric…”
• “In a word, when John points out Christ, it is man pointing out God, the Saviour…”
• “he will obtain the things that were spoken according to the letter of the Gospel to that…”
• “And do not be content with knocking and seeking, for what is most necessary for…”
• “The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians…”
• “We are but of yesterday, and we have filled every place among you--cities, islands…”
• “the Christians to the lion!”
• “We are of your stock and nature: men are made, not born, Christians.”
• “See, they say, how they love one another”
• “O noble testimony of the soul by nature Christian!”
• “Since therefore we have such proofs, it is not necessary to seek the truth among others…”
• “To which course many nations of those barbarians who believe in Christ do assent, having…”
• “The blessed apostles, then, having founded and built up the Church, committed into the…”
• “For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church, on…”
• “the Church, having received this preaching and this faith, although scattered throughout…”
• “Where, therefore, the gifts of the Lord have been placed, there it behoves us to learn…”
• “But Polycarp also was not only instructed by apostles, and conversed with many who had…”
• “It is within the power of all, therefore, in every Church, who may wish to see the…”
• “But our opinion is in accordance with the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn…”
• “For the glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God. For…”
• “for the perfect man consists in the commingling and the union of the soul receiving the…”
• “Soter having succeeded Anicetus, Eleutherius does now, in the twelfth place from the…”
• “For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is…”
• “Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop”
• “to the throne of Peter, and to the chief church whence priestly unity takes its source”
• “The episcopate is one, each part of which is held by each one for the whole.”
• “He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”
• “if not even the baptism of a public confession and blood can profit a heretic to…”
• “For neither I, nor any other such one, can come up to the wisdom of the blessed and…”
• “and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is…”
• “For if a man cannot govern himself in such matters, how shall he enjoin them on others?…”
• “Lay this body anywhere, let not the care for it trouble you at all. This only I ask…”
• “It is called Catholic then because it extends over all the world, from one end of the…”
• “not writing it out on paper, but engraving it by the memory upon your heart”
• “Keep then, I pray thee, this deposit undisturbed, and let none remove thee: believe that…”
• “No one presumes to teach an art till he has first, with intent meditation, learnt it…”
• “The ruler should be discreet in keeping silence, profitable in speech; lest he either…”
• “With kind and humble intent thou reprovest me, dearest brother, for having wished by…”
• “I have been as an ill-favoured painter pourtraying a handsome man; and how I direct…”
• “For, as long before us Gregory Nazianzen of reverend memory has taught, one and the same…”
• “Our apostles also knew, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and there would be strife on…”
• “Let us contemplate, beloved, the resurrection which is at all times taking place. Day…”
• “The height to which love exalts is unspeakable. Love unites us to God. Love covers a…”
• “Owing to envy, Paul also obtained the reward of patient endurance, after being seven…”
• “For the Emperor is within the Church, not above it.”
• “I have written this, not in order to confound you, but that the examples of these kings…”
• “The palaces belong to the Emperor, the churches to the Bishop.”
• “The possessions of the Church are the maintenance of the poor.”
• “Thou, Lord Jesus, hast redeemed the world in one moment of time: shall Auxentius in one…”
• “When I visit Rome, I fast on Saturday; when I am here, I do not fast. On the same…”
• “just as, if one's body were made of adamant, no iron, nor anything else, would have…”
• “The soul of a Bishop is for all the world like a vessel in a storm: lashed from every…”
• “Let us then not consider how to leave our children rich, but how to leave them virtuous.”
• “For He is not so well pleased with being called Master, as Father, nor with having a…”
• “I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that…”
• “For nothing is more frigid than a teacher who shows his philosophy only in words: this…”
• “For wherever the Holy Spirit is present, He makes men of gold out of men of clay.”
• “Thou dost not so much desire thy sins to be forgiven, as He desires to forgive thee thy…”
• “Since then we know this, let us practise humble-mindedness. For there is nothing so…”
• “Such are God's ways of ordering: the very things by which we are hurt, by these same are…”
• “It is a great evil to be ignorant of the Scriptures: from the things we ought to get…”
• “Oh! how great is the devotion (philosophia) of this woman, that she should be even…”
• “Believe me, not fire so effectual to burn off rust, as night prayer to remove the rust…”
• “Not so you: none takes the Bible in hand: nay, everything rather than the Bible.”
• “Since a man is more dignified than a Church: for it was not for walls that Christ died…”
• “Not what we say, but what we do, is what all men look to.”
• “Just as the night-time prayer of Paul and Silas opened the gates of the prison, so the…”
• “Let us think over that night, the stocks, and the hymns of praise. This let us also do…”
• “Those are rulers, who bear rule over themselves.”
• “The Apostles were scourged, and they rejoiced: were bound, and they gave thanks: were…”
• “For it is not possible, I say not possible, ever to exhaust the mind of the Scriptures…”
• “Nothing so becomes a Church as silence and good order.”
• “For we ought to smart not when we are punished, but when we sin.”
• “Thus too they that furnish a life to be wondered at, even though they hold their peace…”
• “And not in fine public monuments, nor yet somewhere out of sight, did He deposit His…”
• “Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.”
• “Christian, acknowledge thy dignity, and becoming a partner in the Divine nature, refuse…”
• “Our Saviour, dearly-beloved, was born today: let us be glad.”
• “These are the men, through whom the light of Christ’s gospel shone on thee, O Rome, and…”
• “And so that which till then was visible of our Redeemer was changed into a sacramental…”
• “For the solidity of that faith which was praised in the chief of the Apostles is…”
• “the guiding of man, the most variable and manifold of creatures, seems to me in very…”
• “Christ is born, glorify ye Him. Christ from heaven, go ye out to meet Him. Christ on…”
• “For we ought to think of God even more often than we draw our breath”
• “But now that the Saviour has raised His body, death is no longer terrible”
• “For where the Saviour's name is named, there every demon is driven out”
• “For He was made man that we might be made God”
• “has throughout all the world persuaded whole churches full of men to despise death, and…”
• “Therefore He put on a body, that He might find death in the body, and blot it out”
• “Asked who and what I was I replied: "I am a Christian." But He who presided said: "Thou…”
• “The church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood not that of others, by…”
• “Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. The friendship which can cease…”
• “For to have an ideal is one thing, to realize it another. It is one thing to live so as…”
• “In a priest of Christ mouth, mind, and hand should be at one.”
• “O desert, bright with the flowers of Christ! O solitude whence come the stones of which…”
• “I praise wedlock, I praise marriage, but it is because they give me virgins. I gather…”
• “Read the divine scriptures constantly; never, indeed, let the sacred volume be out of…”
• “The scars of others should teach us caution.”
• “When teaching in church seek to call forth not plaudits but groans. Let the tears of…”
• “I want creation to penetrate you with so much admiration that everywhere, wherever you…”
• “The operations are various, and the essence simple, but we say that we know our God from…”
• “Now solitude is of the greatest use for this purpose, inasmuch as it stills our…”
• “Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the…”
• “Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or publicly enjoined which are…”
• “I, miserable young man, supremely miserable even in the very outset of my youth, had…”
• “You are of opinion that no one should be compelled to follow righteousness; and yet you…”
• “Lord, make me chaste, but not yet.”
• “What I have now said in regard to abstaining from wanton looks should be carefully…”
• “Love the sinner, but hate the sin.”
• “It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own error—not that for which…”
• “Thou wert more inward to me than my most inward part; and higher than my highest.”
• “Peace should be the object of your desire; war should be waged only as a necessity, and…”
• “Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our…”
• “As severity is ready to punish the faults which it may discover, so charity is reluctant…”
• “I heard the voice as of a boy or girl, I know not which, coming from a neighbouring…”
• “Too late did I love Thee, O Fairness, so ancient, and yet so new! Too late did I love…”
• “What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks…”