1-20-2013-PATRISTIC QUOTATIONS FROM AD DAYS PART 5
*********************************GOD****************************
"FIRST OF ALL, BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ONE GOD WHO CREATED AND FINISHED ALL THINGS, AND MADE ALL THINGS OUT OF NOTHING. HE ALONE IS ABLE TO CONTAIN THE WHOLE, BUT HIMSELF CANNOT BE CONTAINED."
*THE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS*
"WHAT IMAGE OF GOD CAN I INVENT, SINCE IN REALITY, MAN HIMSELF IS GODS IMAGE."
*MINUCIUS FELIX*
"GOD CAN BE PRESENT UNPERCEIVED, AND BE ABSENT, WITHOUT MOVING."
*AUGUSTINE*
"THEREFORE, THINKING WHAT HE WILLS, AND THEN WILLING WHAT HE THINKS, HE IS ALL THOUGHT, ALL WILL, ALL MIND, ALL LIGHT, ALL EYE, ALL EAR, ALL FOUNTAIN OF EVERY GOOD."
*IRENAEUS*
"WRETCHED THAT I AM! I HAVE NOT REMEMBERED THAT GOD OBSERVES THE MIND AND HEARS THE VOICE OF THE SOUL."
*PETER OF ALEXANDER*
"OF ALL VISIBLE THINGS, THE WORLD IS THE GREATEST; OF ALL INVISIBLE, THE GREATEST IS GOD. BUT, THAT THE WORLD IS, WE CAN SEE; THAT GOD IS, WE BELIEVE."
*AUGUSTINE*
"GODS LOVE OF MAN, IS SUCH THAT TO THOSE FOR WHOM FIRST, HE IS THE CREATOR, HE AFTERWARDS, ACCORDING TO GRACE, BECOMES A FATHER, ALSO."
*ATHANASIUS*
"TO THE FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS UN-BEGOTTEN, NO NAME IS GIVEN, FOR ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN A NAME, HAS RECEIVED THE NAME FROM SOMEONE OLDER THAN HIMSELF."
*JUSTIN*
******************************GOODNESS*******************
"YOU WILL NOT FIND THAT UPRIGHT PEOPLE HAVE EVER BEEN DISOWNED BY HOLY MEN. THE RIGHTEOUS, TO BE SURE, HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED, BU BY WICKED MEN."
*CLEMENT*
*************************GRACE********************************
"THE GRACE OF GOD DOES NOT FIND MEN FIT FOR SALVATION, BUT MAKES THEM SO."
*AUGUSTINE*
"THAT THEY BECOME IN BIRTH, VESSELS OF WRATH DUE TO A PENALTY DESERVED; BUT THAT IN A REBIRTH, THEY BECOME VESSELS OF MERCY, IS DUE TO GRACE UNDESERVED."
*AUGUSTINE*
"THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT ALL WHO ACTUALLY COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH AND TO SALVATION, DO SO NOT IN VIRTUE OF THEIR OWN MERITS, BUT OF THE EFFICACIOUS HELP OF DIVINE GRACE"
*PROSPER OF AQUITAINE*
"AND WHATEVER EVILS I HAVE NOT DONE, THAT TOO, I RECKON AS YOUR GRACE."
*AUGUSTINE*
"IF YOU WANT TO BE CAST FORTH FROM GRACE, BRAG ABOUT YOUR MERITS."
*AUGUSTINE*
"EITHER LET US FEAR THE WRATH TO COME OR, LET US VALUE THE GRACE WE HAVE: ONE OR THE OTHER."
*IGNATIUS*
****************************GRIEF*******************************
"YOU MUST REGRET HIM NOT AS DEAD, BUT ABSENT."
*JEROME*
"WE SHOULD INDEED MOURN FOR THE DEAD, BUT ONLY FOR HIM WHOM GEHENNA RECEIVES."
*JEROME*`
*************************HAPPINESS************************
"BUT WHAT ELSE IS IT TO LIVE HAPPILY, EXCEPT TO KNOW, ONE HAS SOMETHING ETERNALLY?"
*AUGUSTINE*
"HAPPINESS IS FOUND IN THE PRACTICE OF VIRTUE."
*CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA*
"HAPPY IS HE WHO MAKES DAILY PROGRESS AND WHO CONSIDERS NOT WHAT HE DID YESTERDAY, BUT WHAT ADVANCE HE CAN MAKE TODAY."
*JEROME*
"HAPPINESS.......IS EFFECTED BY THE COMBINATION OF TWO THINGS, THAT IS, BOTH THAT IT ENJOY WITHOUT ANY INTERRUPTION, THE UNCHANGEABLE GOOD, WHICH IS GOD, AND THAT IT CAN BE CERTAIN BEYOND ANY DOUBT.......THAT IT IS TO REMAIN ETERNALLY, IN THAT SAME ENJOYMENT."
*AUGUSTINE*
"THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF HAPPINESS IS, NOT TO SIN; AND THE SECOND, TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR SINS."
*CYRIAN*
"WHATEVER YOU POSSESS ON EARTH, IS INFERIOR TO YOURSELF.......YOU WANT TO BE BETTER OFF, I KNOW IT, WE ALL KNOW IT, WE ALL WANT THE SAME THING. LOOK FOR WHAT IS BETTER THAN YOURSELF, SO THAT BY THAT MEANS, YOU MAY BECOME BETTER OFF THAN YOU ARE."
*AUGUSTINE*
"UNHAPPINESS, IS THE INSEPARABLE COMPANION OF WICKEDNESS."
*AUGUSTINE*
"HAPPY ARE THEY WHO RECOGNIZE THEIR FATHER."
*TERTULLIAN*