Gregory of Nyssa Quotes

• Who gives you the day will give you also the things necessary for the day.

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  "The Lord's Prayer: The Beatitudes".

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• Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

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  Fall, Idols, People

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• Si realmente pensamos en Cristo como fuente de santidad, nos abstendremos de todo lo que sea malo o impuro en pensamiento o acción, y así nos mostraremos dignos portadores de su nombre. Porque la calidad de la santidad no se demuestra por lo que decimos, sino por lo que hacemos en la vida.

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  Life, Christian, Jesus

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• As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ.

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  Eye, Light, Darkness

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• For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?

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  Believe, Simple, Divine

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• God's name is not known; it is wondered at.

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  Names, Known

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• Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

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  War, Catholic, Harmony

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• It is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are.

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  Tears, Impossible

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• May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.

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  Catholic, Soul, Risk

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• Que podamos fundirnos en la profunda y deslumbrante oscuridad, desvanecernos en ella, disolvernos en ella para siempre en una dicha increíble más allá de la imaginación, pues la nada absoluta representa la dicha absoluta.

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  Spiritual, Imagination, Forever

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• Del mismo modo que en el mar los que se alejan de la dirección del puerto recuperan el rumbo por una señal clara, al ver una luz de faro alta o algún pico de montaña que se vislumbra, así la Escritura puede guiar a los que van a la deriva en el mar de la vida de vuelta al puerto de la voluntad divina.

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  Light, Mountain Peaks, Views

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• Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

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  Idols, Wonder, Concepts

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• La esperanza siempre atrae al alma desde la belleza que se ve hacia lo que está más allá, siempre enciende el deseo de lo oculto a través de lo que se percibe constantemente. Por eso, el ardiente amante de la belleza, aunque recibe lo que siempre es visible como imagen de lo que desea, anhela llenarse de la impronta misma del arquetipo.

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  Soul, Desire, Receiving

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• Today the darkness begins to grow shorter and the light to lengthen, as the hours of night become fewer.... Realize that the true light is now here and, through the rays of the gospel, is illumining the whole earth.

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  Night, Light, Darkness

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• It is impossible that one who has turned to the world and feels its anxieties, and engages his heart in the wish to please men, can fulfill that first and great commandment of the Master, 'You shall love God with all your heart and with all your strength' (Mt. 22:37).

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  Cristiano, Corazón, Hombres

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• There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief act of faith in this mystery is to look to Him who suffered the passion for us. The cross is the passion, so that whoever looks to it? is not harmed by the poison of desire. To look to the cross means to render one's whole life dead and crucified to the world.

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  Christian, Passion, Mean

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• [Los judíos son] asesinos del Señor, asesinos de los profetas, rebeldes contra Dios, aborrecedores de Dios,... abogados del diablo, raza de víboras, calumniadores, difamadores, gente de mente oscura, levadura de los fariseos, sanedrín de demonios, pecadores, malvados, apedreadores y aborrecedores de la justicia.

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  Oscuridad, Hombres, Raza

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• Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Savior... Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?

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  Faith, Inspiration, Moving

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• Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.

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  Soul, Faces, Beloved

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• For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?

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  Philosophy, Men, Light

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• The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

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  Art, Wall, Doe

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• Now there have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through whom the generation or birth of believers takes place, and he who is begotten by this Trinity is equally begotten of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost —for thus does the Gospel speak of the Spirit, that “that which is born of Spirit is spirit,” and it is “in Christ “that Paul begets, and the Father is the “Father of all”.

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  Christian, Father, Son

  "The Great Catechism".

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• Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything.

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  Idols, Wonder, Concepts

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• We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings

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  Writing, Mean, Eye

  Saint Gregory of Nyssa, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Gregory of Nyssa Collection [7 Books]”, p.817, Aeterna Press

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• Nuestra debilidad humana está protegida por la asistencia de los Ángeles y... en todos nuestros peligros, siempre que la fe permanezca con nosotros, estamos defendidos por la ayuda de los poderes espirituales.

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  Spiritual, Angel, Weakness

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