Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 - c. 215), also Clement Alexandrine, full name Titus Flavius Clemens, was an early Greek theologian. He became a Christian convert. He is usually regarded as a Church Father, and was venerated as a saint in Coptic Christianity, Eastern Catholicism, Ethiopian Christianity, and Anglicanism. Because of this he is sometimes referred as St Clement of Alexandria. However, his name was removed from the Roman Martyrology by Pope Sixtus V in 1586 on the advice of Baronius. The Eastern Orthodox Church officially stopped any veneration of Clement of Alexandria in the 10th century. During the Severian persecution of 202–203, Clement left Alexandria. He died c. 215 AD at an unknown location.Wisdom & Quotes
- Prayer is conversation with God.
- Stromateis
There is one river of truth, which receives tributaries from every side.
– Stromata
- It is monstrous for one to live in luxury while many are in want.
– Paedagogus
- Men who offer laudatory speeches to the rich ... are insidious because, although mere abundance is by itself quite enough to puff up the souls of its possessors, and to corrupt them, and to turn them aside from the way by which salvation can be reached, these men bring fresh delusion to the minds of the rich by exciting them with the pleasures that come from their immoderate praises, and by rendering them contemptuous of absolutely everything in the world except the wealth which is the cause of their being admired. In the words of the proverb, they carry fire to fire, when they shower pride upon pride, and heap on wealth, heavy by its own nature, the heavier burden of arrogance.
– The Rich Man's Salvation
- As we are clearly aware that the Savior teaches His people nothing in a merely human way, but everything by a divine and mystical wisdom, we must not understand His words literally σαρκίνως but with due inquiry and intelligence we must search out and master their hidden meaning.
– The Rich Man's Salvation
- All possessions are by nature unrighteous when a man possesses them for personal advantage as being entirely his own, and does not bring them into the common stock for those in need.
– The Rich Man's Salvation
- Cultivate quietness in word, quietness in deed, likewise in speech and gait; and avoid impetuous eagerness, for then the mind will remain steady, and will not be agitated by your eagerness. ... For the mind, seated on high on a quiet throne looking intently towards God, must control the passions, ... so that your quietness may be adorned by good proportion and your bearing may appear something divine.
– To the Newly Baptized
- Take care never to speak what you have not weighed and pondered beforehand; nor interject your own words on the spur of the moment and in the midst of another’s; for you must listen and converse in turn, with set times for speech and for silence.
– To the Newly Baptized
Tertullian
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Clement Prince Von Metternich, Clement the critic, Clement the manufacturer, Cleobulus, Cleombrotus