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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (380)
He who thinks that no one is in the presence of God, he is not humble towards 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.
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...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (42)
It is better to have nothing, than to possess much and impart it to no one. He who thinks that there is a God, and that nothing is taken care of by...
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 ...
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.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (60)
The simple saith, God made all things out of nothing. But he knoweth not that God; neither does he know what God is: for when he beholdeth the earth,...
Allogenes the Stranger
Parallel with the Apocryphon of John (BG ,6-25,7 = II ,17-33) (12)
He will not be judged by that One, who is neither concerned for anything nor has any desire, but he is (judged) through himself because he has not fou...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (59)
The rational man is he who fears God. He who fears God does nothing insolent. And he who guards himself against doing anything insolent is one who kee...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (74)
If any mortal thinks, that day by day, While doing ill, he eludes the gods keen sight, His thoughts are evil; and when justice has The leisure, he...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (112)
He, then, who is not obedient to the truth, and is puffed up with human teaching, is wretched and miserable, according to Euripides: "Who these...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (76)
Indeed, thou proud man, the Deity is a very meek, simple and quiet still being, and gropeth not in the bottom of hell and death, but in his heaven,...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (2)
Then presently he thinketh, God has made this thus, out of or from his predestinate purpose, out of nothing: How then can God be in this being? Or,...
The Alchemy of Happiness
Concerning Self-Examination and the Recollection of God (4)
We come now to the recollection of God. This consists in a man's remembering that God observes all his acts and thoughts. People only see the...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (22)
Yet thou must not think that God, who is in heaven and above heaven, does there stand and hover, like a power and quality which has in it neither reas...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (79)
He knows all things before they happen, and he knows the hidden things of the heart. They are all revealed and found wanting in his presence. Let no o...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (61)
For piety is that which is from the heart, and piety from the heart (characterizes) every soul which is near to God.
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.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter I: The Gnostic A True Worshipper of God, and Unjustly Calumniated By Unbelievers as An Atheist. (10)
He, then, who is persuaded that God is omnipotent, and has learned the divine mysteries from His only-begotten Son, how can he be an atheist (apeos)?
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.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (47)
Seeing then all live and have their being in God, why do the weeds glory and boast against the wheat? Dost thou think that God is a dissembler, and...
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