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Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (50)
To use many words when speaking of God, produces an ignorance of God. The man who possesses a knowledge of God, will not be very ambitious.
Theologia Germanica
Chapter V (5.1)
Certain men say that we ought to be without will, wisdom, love, desire, knowledge, and the like. Hereby is not to be understood that there is to be...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 70: That right as by the defailing of our bodily wits we begin more readily to come to knowing of ghostly things, so by the defailing of our ghostly wits we begin most readily to come to the knowledge of God, such as is possible by grace to be had here (4)
On this same manner ghostly it fareth within our ghostly wits, when we travail about the knowing of God Himself. For have a man never so much ghostly...
Meister Eckhart - Sermons
Sermon II: The Nearness Of The Kingdom (4)
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or, he may be in Church and be aware of God; but, if he is more aware of Him...
Meister Eckhart - Sermons
Sermon II: The Nearness Of The Kingdom (8)
Schoolmen have often asked how it is possible for the soul to know God. It is not from severity that God demands much from men in order to obtain the...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (24)
As little as a piece of work can apprehend him that made it, so little also can man apprehend and know God his Creator, unless the Holy Ghost...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (2)
Such an one is persuaded that God is ever beside him, and does not suppose that He is confined in certain limited places; so that under the idea that ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (2)
Spirit and Mind show me as much, that many will be offended at the Simplicity and Meanness of the Author, for offering to write of such high Things; a...
Theologia Germanica
Chapter V (5.3)
If this came to pass, I should needs cease to call anything my own. It is better that God, or His works, should be known, as far as it be possible to...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XI: What Is the Philosophy Which the Apostle Bids Us Shun? (8)
"For he that seeketh the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness; and they who have sought it rightly have found peace." "And I will know," it...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (24)
Thus he, being magnanimous, possessing, through knowledge, what is the most precious of all, the best of all, being quick in applying himself to...
Theologia Germanica
Chapter XLIV (44.3)
It is a great folly when a man, or any creature, dreameth that he knoweth or can accomplish aught of himself, and above all when he dreameth that he...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (29)
For we live in this world as men who know but in part, and are made of that which is but in part. Therefore I cite the Reader into the life to come, w...
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (361)
Be (more) sparing with a word about God (than) about a soul.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVIII: The Use of Philosophy to the Gnostic. (12)
I do not say His name. For to name it is common, not to philosophers only, but also to poets. Nor [do I say] His essence; for this is impossible, but ...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 40: That in the time of this work a soul hath no special beholding to any vice in itself nor to any virtue in itself (3)
On the same manner shalt thou do with this little word “God.” Fill thy spirit with the ghostly bemeaning of it without any special beholding to any...
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (352/353)
It is not a small danger for us to speak the truth about God; do not say anything about God before you have learned from God.
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (367/368)
He who speaks lies about God is lying to God; a man who does not have anything truthful to say about God is abandoned by God.
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (2)
A man must diligently consider the powers in nature. II. Also the whole creation, heaven and earth. III. The stars, the elements, and the creatures th...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (42)
My son, do not dare to say a word about this One, and do not confine the God of all to mental images. For he who condemns may not be condemned by the...
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (366)
It is better for you to be silent about the word of God, than to speak recklessly.
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