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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (375)
When you pray for something and it happens to you through God, then say with your mind that you have [...].
Allogenes the Stranger
Allogenes' response
[And then I] prayed that [the revelation] might happen to me.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (20)
When, then, the man who chooses what is right, and is at the same time of thankful heart, makes his request in prayer, he contributes to the...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXV. The Fig Tree Withered—faith Exalted—prayer with Faith Extolled (10)
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall receive them.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (85)
If you will pray to God, then call upon God (your heavenly Father) in the Name of his son Jesus Christ, [desiring] that he would forgive your Sins,...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (67)
Now when thou worshippest or prayest to the holy God in his heaven, then thou worshippest or prayest to him in that heaven which is in thee, and that...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: The True Gnostic Is Beneficent, Continent, and Despises Worldly Things. (17)
His whole life is prayer and converse with God. And if he be pure from sins, he will by all means obtain what he wishes. For God says to the...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (12)
That which God gives you, no one can take away. Neither do nor even think of that which you are not willing God should know.
Three Steles of Seth
The First Stele of Seth (15)
You are uttered by a voice, but by mind you are glorified.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (10)
Whence, as is right, there being only one good God, that some good things be given from Him alone, and that some remain, we and the angels pray. But...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXII. The Centurion's Servant Healed—the Widow's Son Restored (8)
Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.
The Masnavi
The Man who prayed earnestly to be fed without work (Summary)
In the time of the prophet David there was a man who used to pray day and night, saying, "Thou hast created me weak and helpless; give me my daily...
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 (1)
AND if any thought rise and will press continually above thee betwixt thee and that darkness, and ask thee saying, “What seekest thou, and what woulde...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 39: How a perfect worker shall pray, and what prayer is in itself; and, if a man shall pray in words, which words accord them most to the property of prayer (3)
Prayer in itself properly is not else, but a devout intent direct unto God, for getting of good and removing of evil. And then, since it so is that...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXV. The Fig Tree Withered—faith Exalted—prayer with Faith Extolled (9)
Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall...
Bhagavad Gita
Vijnana Yoga (7.22)
Possessed of that faith, he worships that form and from it attains his desires, which are, in reality, granted by Me alone.
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XXVIII (6)
Its strength proceedeth from him, it hath obtained it by prayer from him
Corpus Hermeticum
13. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain (20)
[For] Thou art God, Thy Man thus cries to Thee through Fire, through Air, through Earth, through Water, [and] through Spirit, through Thy creatures....
The Masnavi
Bayazid and the Saint (11-20)
You have made the pilgrimage and gained the life to come, You have become pure, and that in a moment of time. Of a truth that is God which your soul...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: Human Nature Possesses An Adaptation for Perfection; the Gnostic Alone Attains It. (8)
To those, then, who have repented and not firmly believed, God grants their requests through their supplications. But to those who live sinlessly and...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 28 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (11)
And therefore do Thou, O Lord, the Great Creator! fill up and satisfy (my ) desire with these attainments (of the grace) of Thy Good Mind, which Thou ...
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