2-20-2013- PATRISTIC QUOTATIONS PART 10
********************RESURRECTION*********************
"ALL NATURE SUGGESTS THE FUTURE RESURRECTION. THE SUN SINKS DOWN, BUT IS REBORN. THE STARS GO OUT, BUT RETURN AGAIN. FLOWERS DIE, BUT COME TO LIFE AGAIN. AFTER THEIR DECAY, SHRUBS PUT FORTH LEAVES AGAIN; NOT UNLESS SEEDS DECAY, DOES THEIR STRENGTH RETURN. A BODY IN THE GRAVE, IS LIKE THE TREES IN WINTER: THEY HIDE THEIR SAP UNDER A DECEPTIVE DRYNESS. WHY ARE YOU IN HASTE FOR IT TO REVIVE AND RETURN, WHILE YET, THE WINTER IS RAW? WE MUST AWAIT EVEN THE SPRING OF THE BODY."
*MINUCIUS*
"JESUS ACCEPTED A DECAYING BODY, SO THAT DECAYING BODIES MIGHT PUT ON IMMORTALITY."
*ATHANASIUS*
"THE WORD RECOGNIZES THREE BIRTHS FOR US; NAMELY, THE NATURAL BIRTH, THAT OF BAPTISM, AND THAT OF THE RESURRECTION."
*GREGORY OF NAZIANAUS*
"IF CHRIST DIED AND DID NOT RISE, HOW IS IT THAT THOSE IN THE ACCOUNT, WHO FLED FROM IMPENDING DANGER WHILE HE WAS YET ALIVE, SURROUNDED THEMSELVES WITH A THOUSAND DANGERS FOR HIS SAKE, WHEN HE WAS DEAD."
*JOHN CHRYSOSTOM*
"IF HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE RENEWED, WHY SHOULD WE DOUBT THAT MAN CAN BE RENEWED, WHEN IT IS ON HIS ACCOUNT, THAT EARTH AND HEAVEN WERE MADE?
*AMBROSE OF MILAN*
"THE RESURRECTION, IS A RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH WHICH DIED. FOR THE SPIRIT DIES NOT; THE SOUL IS IN THE BODY AND WITHOUT A SOUL, IT CANNOT LIVE. THE BODY WHEN THE SOUL FORSAKES IT, IT IS NOT. FOR THE BODY IS THE HOUSE OF THE SOUL; AND THE SOUL, THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRIT. THESE THREE, IN ALL THOSE WHO CHERISH THE SINCERE HOPE AND UNQUESTIONING FAITH IN GOD, WILL BE SAVED."
*JUSTIN*
"DO YOU THINK THAT IF SOMETHING BE WITHDRAWN FROM OUR FEEBLE EYES, IT PERISHES TO GOD? EVERYBODY, WHETHER IT WITHERS INTO DUST, OR IS DISSOLVED INTO MOISTURE, OR IS CRUMBLED INTO ASHES, OR PASSES OFF AS A VAPOR, IS REMOVED FROM OUR EYES; BUT A GUARD IS KEPT OVER ITS ELEMENTS BY GOD."
*MINUCIUS*
"THE LORD JESUS EXHORTING HIS MARTYRS TO PATIENCE, HAS PROMISED TO THE VERY BODY A FUTURE PERFECT ENTIRENESS, WITHOUT LOSS, I SAY NOT OF ANY LIMB, BUT OF A SINGLE HAIR."
*AUGUSTINE*
"THERE WILL BE A RESURRECTION, EVEN OF THE WICKED, BUT WITHOUT THE CHANGE, WHICH GOD IS GOING TO GIVE TO THE FAITHFUL ALONE."
*FULGENCE OF RUSPE*
"BUT YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE DEAD ARE RAISED. WHEN THE RESURRECTION SHALL TAKE PLACE, THEN YOU WILL BELIEVE, WHETHER YOU WILL, OR NOT; AND YOUR FAITH SHALL BE RECKONED FOR UNBELIEF, UNLESS YOU BELIEVE NOW."
*THEOPHILUS OF ANTIOCH*
"WHOEVER.....SAYS, THAT THERE IS NEITHER RESURRECTION OR JUDGMENT, SUCH A ONE, IS THE FIRST BORN OF SATAN."
*POLYCARP*
************************REVENGE****************************
"THE PRECEPT, "RESIST NOT EVIL", WAS GIVEN TO PREVENT US FROM TAKING REVENGE....BUT NOT TO MAKE US NEGLECT THE DUTY OF RESTRAINING MEN FROM SIN."
*AUGUSTINE*
**************************REWARDS*************************
"THE ROOT OF EVERY GOOD WORK, IS THE HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION; FOR THE EXPECTATION OF A REWARD, NERVES THE SOUL TO GOOD WORK."
*CYRIL OF JERUSALEM*
"IF YOU HAVE LABORED LITTLE, YOU WILL RECEIVE LITTLE; BUT IF YOUR LABOR HAS BEEN GREAT, GREAT WILL BE YOUR REWARD."
*CYRIL OF JERUSALEM*
***************************RICHES*****************************
"RICHES AND THE DESIRE OF WEALTH, IS A DRUNKENESS OF THE SOUL."
*JOHN CHRYSOSTOM*
"EARTHLY RICHES ARE FULL OF POVERTY."
*AUGUSTINE*
"NO MATTER HOW RICH ONE MAY BE ON EARTH, ONE IS STILL GODS BEGGAR.....HAVE NOT MANY LAIN DOWN TO SLEEP AS WEALTHY MEN AND RISEN UP AS PAUPERS?"
*AUGUSTINE*
"IT IS THE GLORY OF A BISHOP TO MAKE PROVISIONS FOR THE WANTS OF THE POOR; BUT IT IS SHAME OF ALL PRIESTS TO AMASS PRIVATE FORTUNES."
*JEROME*
"HE DOES NOT SEE, POOR WRETCH, THAT HIS LIFE IS BUT A GILDED TORTURE, THAT HE IS BOUND FAST BY HIS WEALTH, AND THAT HIS MONEY OWNS HIM, RATHER THAN HE OWNS IT."
*CYPRIAN*
"YOUR MONEY PURSE OUGHT NOT TO REMAIN FULL, WHILE I AM IN NEED."
*JEROME*
"SHOW FORTH ALL YOUR WEALTH, IN GIVING."
*COMMODIANUS*
"WE PREFER TO DESPISE WEALTH, THAN TO POSSESS IT."
*MINUCIUS*
"NOTHING THAT IS GODS, IS OBTAINABLE BY MONEY."
*TERTULLIAN*
"TO GO ABOUT WITHOUT A LINEN SCARF ON IS NOTHING; WHAT IS PRAISEWORTHY, IS TO BE WITHOUT MONEY, TO BUY ONE."
*JEROME*
***********************************RUMORS******************
"FOR IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR YOU PATIENTLY TO LISTEN TO EVIL SPEAKING AGAINST ANOTHER, INASMUCH AS YOU WOULD NOT WISH THAT TO BE DONE BY OTHERS, WHEN DIRECTED AGAINST YOURSELF."
*SULPITIUS*
************************SALVATION*************************
"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 TO THE EFFICACIOUS HELP OF DIVINE GRACE."
*PROSPER OF AQUITAINE*
"WE THERFORE, WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED BY HIS WILL IN CHRIST JESUS, ARE NOT JUSTIFIED BY OURSELVES, NEITHER BY OUR OWN WISDOM, OR UNDERSTANDING, OR PIETY, NOT BY THE WORKS WE HAVE DONE IN HOLINESS OF HEART, BUT BY THE FAITH, BY WHICH ALMIGHTY GOD HAS JUSTIFIED ALL MEN FROM THE BEGINNING."
*CLEMENT OF ROME*
"HUMAN WEAKNESS CANNOT ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH SALVATION BY ITSELF ALONE, THAT IS, WITHOUT THE AID OF GOD."
*JOHN CASSIAN*
"GOD HAS PROMISED FORGIVENESS TO YOUR REPENTANCE, BUT GOD HAS NOT PROMISED TOMORROW TO YOUR PROCRASTINATION."
*AUGUSTINE*
"GOD SAYS TODAY; THE DEVIL SAYS,TOMORROW."
*BASIL THE GREAT*