Quotes from Clement of Alexandria
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.
- Clement of Alexandria
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
- Clement of Alexandria
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
- Clement of Alexandria
GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.
- Clement of Alexandria
The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.
- Clement of Alexandria
Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called "the Church".
- Clement of Alexandria
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
- Clement of Alexandria
He changed sunset into sunrise.
- Clement of Alexandria
To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.
- Clement of Alexandria
If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?
- Clement of Alexandria