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Dhammapada
Chapter XVIII: Impurity (241)
The taint of prayers is non-repetition; the taint of houses, non- repair; the taint of the body is sloth; the taint of a watchman, thoughtlessness.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 35: Of three means in the which a contemplative prentice should be occupied; in reading, thinking, and praying (3)
If this spot be any special sin, then is this well Holy Church, and this water confession, with the circumstances. If it be but a blind root and a sti...
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (354/356)
Do not speak with a godless person about God; if you are polluted on account of impure works, do not speak about God.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (6)
In general, then, an unworthy opinion of God preserves no piety, either in hymns, or discourses, or writings, or dogmas, but diverts to grovelling...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXXVII. Pharisees Querulous—tradition of the Elders: Unwashen Hands—washing of Pots Not the Whole of Godliness—blind Leaders of the Blind (13)
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man: for from within, out of the heart of men, proceed ...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 53: Of divers unseemly practices that follow them that lack the work of this book (4)
I say not that all these unseemly practices be great sins in themselves, nor yet all those that do them be great sinners themselves. But I say if...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXXV. Conspiracy at the High Priest's Palace—judas Hired—the Passover Supper—christ's Humility: He Washes the Feet of the Twelve (20)
If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XX: The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self - Restraint. (19)
For as the exhalations which arise from the earth, and from marshes, gather into mists and cloudy masses; so the vapours of fleshly lusts bring on the...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 33 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (4)
(And I beseech for Thine instruction), I who will abjure all disobedience (toward Thee, praying that others likewise may withhold it) from Thee; I...
The Masnavi
The Travelers who ate the Young Elephant (31-40)
O Prophet, and O ambassador of the Almighty, Provide another Mu'azzin of better talent. 'Tis an error at the beginning of our divine worship
The Masnavi
Moses and the Shepherd (31-40)
Thy own prayers are accepted only through mercy, If her prayers are made impure by the flow of blood, Blood is impure, yet its stain is removed by wat...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXIX. "woe unto You, Scribes and Pharisees!"—hypocrisy and Cant Condemned—"o Jerusalem, Jerusalem!"—"blessed Is He That Cometh in the Name of the Lord" (9)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion...
Asclepius
Section XXII (1)
The pious are not numerous, however; nay, they are very few, so that they may be counted even in the world. Whence it doth come about, that in the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVIII: The Distinction Between Clean and Unclean Animals in the Law Symbolical of the Distinction Between the Church, and Jews, and Heretics. (5)
"But ye Megareans," says Theognis," are neither third nor fourth, Nor twelfth, neither in reckoning nor in number," "but as chaff which the wind drive...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XII (5)
Why do ye worship things that have no spirit in them? For they are the work of (men's) hands, And on your shoulders do ye bear them,* And ye have no...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVIII: The Distinction Between Clean and Unclean Animals in the Law Symbolical of the Distinction Between the Church, and Jews, and Heretics. (4)
For these point out the heretics, who indeed go upon the name of the Father and the Son, but are in capable of triturating and grinding down the clear...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 16: Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child in the Mother's Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God, and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and found out in a [any] one Man. The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the Woman of this World, highly to be considered. (45)
Now if thou hast had an envious [spiteful] dogged Mind, and hast grudged every Thing to others, as a Dog does with a Bone which himself cannot eat,...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC SENTENCES, FROM THE PROTREPTICS OF IAMBLICHUS. [96] (8)
We shall venerate Divinity in a proper manner, if we render the intellect that is in us pure from all vice, as from a certain stain.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 42: That by indiscretion in this, men shall keep discretion in all other things; and surely else never (2)
For surely I trow I should rather come to discretion in them by such a heedlessness, than by any busy beholding to the same things, as I would by that...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 19: Of the Entering of the Souls to God, and of the wicked Souls Entering into Perdition. Of the Gate of the Body's Breaking off [or Parting] from the Soul. (47)
In the mean Time, thou consumest the Sweat and Blood of the Needy, and thou gatherest all his Miseries and Necessities on a Heap in thy Soul; thou...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XV: The Objection to Join the Church on Account of the Diversity of Heresies Answered. (6)
No more, then, may he who in soul is sick and full of idols, make a pretext of the heresies, in reference to the recovery of health and conversion to...
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