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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (370)
A man who does evil to someone will not be able to worship God.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (41)
He does not know God who does not worship him. The man who is worthy of God is also a God among men.
Dhammapada
Chapter XIII: The World (176)
If a man has transgressed one law, and speaks lies, and scoffs at another world, there is no evil he will not do.
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (117)
If a man commits a sin, let him not do it again; let him not delight in sin: pain is the outcome of evil.
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 33 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (2)
Yea, (he will act with justice but with vengeance, for) he who does evil to the wicked by word, or with thought (and plan), and (who therein does not...
Bhagavad Gita
Vijnana Yoga (7.15)
Evil-doers and the deluded and the vilest among men, deprived of knowledge by māyā and following the way of the asuras, do not worship Me.
Theologia Germanica
Chapter XLVII (47.2)
God loveth also works, but not all works. Which then? Such as are done from the teaching and guidance of the True Light and the True Love; and what is...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IV: The Heathens Made Gods Like Themselves, Whence Springs All Superstition. (21)
The same people, who worship every stick and greasy stone, as the saying is, dreads tufts of tawny wool, and lumps of salt, and torches, and squills,...
Bhagavad Gita
Rāja Vidyā Yoga (9.30)
Even the most sinful man, if he worships Me with unswerving devotion, must be regarded as righteous; for he has formed the right resolution.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCVI (7)
Woe to you who work unrighteousness And deceit and blasphemy: It shall be a memorial against you for evil.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIX (1)
Woe to you who work godlessness, And glory in lying and extol them: Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter III: The Gnostic Aims At the Nearest Likeness Possible to God and His Son. (13)
He must consequently learn to be faithful both to himself and his neighbours, and obedient to the commandments. For he is the true servant of God who ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXII: The True Gnostic Does Good, Not From Fear of Punishment or Hope of Reward, But Only for the Sake of Good Itself. (15)
Even Epicurus says, that the man who in his estimation was wise, "would not do wrong to any one for the sake of gain; for he could not persuade...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (12)
Besides, God has given laws to man, and has forbidden the evil, and commanded the good. Now if God would have the evil, and also the good, then he...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (43)
He honors God in the best manner who renders his intellect as much as possible similar to God. If you injure no one, you will fear no one.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXIII (14)
For to no man who doeth so in Israel is it permitted to remain alive a single day on the earth, for he is abominable and unclean.
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Love of God (22)
But (and may God preserve us from such a doom!) if in a man's heart there has been growing up a love of what is opposed to God, the conditions of the ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter CIV (9)
Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take...
Theologia Germanica
Chapter XVII (17.2)
But if any now will excuse himself for sin, by refusing to take what is evil unto himself, and laying the guilt thereof upon the Evil Spirit, and thus...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXI (9)
And those who practice righteousness shall die on account of the deeds of men, And be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.'
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 46 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (6)
(And he who leaves him in his guilty error has my curse.) Yea, he who has the power , and will not thus (with stern reproof ) approach him, shall go...
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