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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (361)
Be (more) sparing with a word about God (than) about a soul.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (39)
Speak not of God to every man. It is dangerous, and the danger is not small, to speak of God even things which are true.
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.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 37: Of the special prayers of them that be continual workers in the work of this book (2)
Yea, and if it be but a little word of one syllable, me think it better than of two: and more, too, according to the work of the spirit, since it so i...
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...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 7: How a man shall have him in this work against all thoughts, and specially against all those that arise of his own curiosity, of cunning, and of natural wit (5)
And such a word is this word GOD or this word LOVE. Choose thee whether thou wilt, or another; as thee list, which that thee liketh best of one syllab...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (40)
A true assertion respecting God, is an assertion of God. You should not dare to speak of God to the multitude.
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...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (104)
Thou shouldst not think that God at that time did speak in that way as men do, and that it is but a weak, impotent word, like man's word.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 37: Of the special prayers of them that be continual workers in the work of this book (3)
And rather it pierceth the ears of Almighty God than doth any long psalter unmindfully mumbled in the teeth. And herefore it is written, that short pr...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 51: That men should have great wariness so that they understand not bodily a thing that is meant ghostly; and specially it is good to be wary in understanding of this word in, and of this word up (2)
Ensample of this mayest thou see, by that that I bid thee hide thy desire from God in that that in thee is. For peradventure an I had bidden thee...
The Masnavi
The Jewish King, his Vazir, and the Christians (71-80)
In one 'twas said, "Reference to thine own weakness Is ingratitude for God's mercies towards us. Rather regard thy power, for thou hast power from...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (30)
Do not mention everything in the presence of those whom you do not know.
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (25)
Let it be more eligible to you to throw a stone in vain, than to utter an idle word. Pythagoras. Stob. p. 215.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (49)
The wise man is governed by God, and on this account is blessed. A scientific knowledge of God causes a man to use few words.
Asclepius
Section XXIII (1)
Still, of the rest, the vicious folk, we ought to say no word, for fear a very sacred sermon should be spoiled by thinking of them.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (47)
Divine wisdom is true science. You should not dare to speak of God to an impure soul. The wise man follows God, and God follows the soul of the wise...
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...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 48: How God will be served both with body and with soul, and reward men in both; and how men shall know when all those sounds and sweetness that fall into the body in time of prayer be both good and evil (1)
I SAY not this because I will that thou desist any time, if thou be stirred for to pray with thy mouth, or for to burst out for abundance of devotion...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (1)
To neglect things of the smallest consequence, is not the least thing in human life. The wise man, and the despiser of wealth, resembles God.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 46: A good teaching how a man shall flee these deceits, and work more with a listiness of spirit, than with any boisterousness of body (1)
For ever the more Mistily, the more meekly and ghostly: and ever the more rudely, the more bodily and beastly. And therefore be wary, for surely what ...
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