Quotes from Clement of Alexandria
If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.
— Clement of Alexandria
His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.
— Clement of Alexandria
The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.
— Clement of Alexandria
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
— 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
It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.
— Clement of Alexandria
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety, but profit.
— Clement of Alexandria
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
— Clement of Alexandria
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
— 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
The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
— Clement of Alexandria
There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.
— Clement of Alexandria