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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (390)
What you do well, say with your mind that it is God who does it.
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.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (34)
Invoke God as a witness to whatever you do. The bad man does not think there is a providence. Assert that which possesses wisdom in you, to be the...
Tripartite Tractate
The Organization (11)
The things which he has spoken he does. When he saw that they were great and good and wonderful, he was pleased and rejoiced, as if he himself in his...
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...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (76)
Behold, all whatsoever thou lettest into thy Mind (if thy Soul be not inclined [or yielded up] to God, so that it believes and trusts in him) then...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (4)
Honor God above all things, that he may rule over you. Whatever you honor above all things, that which you so honor will have dominion over you. But...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (50)
Yes, dear man, now boast thyself that thou hast hit it well! Indeed thou, above others, knowest God! Behold, thou blind man, wherever love riseth up...
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...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 3: How the work of this book shall be wrought, and of the worthiness of it before all other works (1)
LIFT up thine heart unto God with a meek stirring of love; and mean Himself, and none of His goods. And thereto, look the loath to think on aught but...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIII: The Same Subject Continued. (8)
"Rely with all thy heart and thy mind on God."
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (13)
Before you do any thing think of God, that his light may precede your energies. The soul is illuminated by the recollection of deity.
Theologia Germanica
Chapter IV (4.1)
God saith, “I will not give My glory to another.”7 This is as much as to say, that praise and honour and glory belong to none but to God only. But...
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 (2)
For peradventure he will bring to thy mind diverse full fair and wonderful points of His kindness, and say that He is full sweet, and full loving, ful...
Theologia Germanica
Chapter V (5.2)
For the less we call these things our own, the more perfect and noble and Godlike do they become, and the more we think them our own, the baser and le...
Three Steles of Seth
The Third Stele of Seth (5)
We all praise you, you who know, with glorifying praise, you, because of whom all these are . . . who know yourself through yourself alone.
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.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 34: That God giveth this grace freely without any means, and that it may not be come to with means (3)
Beware of pride, for it blasphemeth God in His gifts, and boldeneth sinners. Wert thou verily meek, thou shouldest feel of this work as I say: that...
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: Human Nature Possesses An Adaptation for Perfection; the Gnostic Alone Attains It. (9)
Think, and I will give." For we have heard that God knows the heart, not judging the soul from [external] movement, as we men; nor yet from the...
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