The Complete Works of the Church Fathers Quotes

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind; ​"​ [ Matthew 22:37 ] and ​"​ You shall love your neighbour as yourself. ​"​ [ Matthew 22:39 ] ​"​ On these two commandments, ​"​ says He, ​"​ hang all the law and the prophets. ​"​ [ Matthew 22:40 ] Whatever, therefore, we are by God's law forbidden,”
― The Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“because Your loving-kindness is better than life, " behold, my life is but a distraction, and Your right hand upheld me in my Lord, the Son of man, the Mediator between You, [ 1 Timothy 2: 5 ] The One, and us the many—in many distractions amid many things—that through Him I may apprehend in whom I have been apprehended, and may be recollected from my old days, following The One, forgetting the things that are past; and not distracted, but drawn on, not to those things which shall be and shall pass away, but to those things which are before, [ Philippians 3: 13 ] not distractedly, but intently, I follow on for the prize of my heavenly calling, where I may hear the voice of Your praise, and contemplate Your delights, neither coming nor passing away. But now are my years spent in mourning. And You, O Lord, art my comfort, my Father everlasting. But I have been divided amid times, the order of which I know not; and my thoughts, even the inmost bowels of my soul, are mangled with tumultuous varieties, until I flow together unto You, purged and molten in the fire of Your love.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“the wedding garment.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“This is the Catholic faith. Whoso denies that Christ is God is a Photinian; whoso denies that Christ is man is a Manichæan. Whoso confesses that Christ is God equal with the Father and very man, that He truly suffered, truly shed His blood (for the Truth would not have set us free, if He had given a false price for us); whoso confesses both, is a Catholic. He”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“is meet and right then that in the congregation of Christians their Prelates should sit in eminent place, that by their very seat they may be distinguished, and that their office may be duly marked; yet not so that they should be puffed up for their seat; but that they should esteem it a burden, for which they are to render an account. But who knows whether they love this, or do not love it? This is a matter of the heart, it can have no other judge but God.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“Now that heart which asks rightly, and knocks and seeks rightly, must be godly. Must first love God for His Own sake (for this is godliness); and not propose to itself any reward which it looks for from Him other than God Himself.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“Give Christ a place with your children, be your Lord added to your family; be your Creator added to your offspring, be your Brother added to the number of your children.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“For suppose a child wishes to play in some river's stream, by whose force he would be like to perish; if you see this, and patiently suffer it, this would be hating; your patient suffering him, is his death.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“All this he will endure, that he may die a little later; and yet he will not endure ever so little, that he may never die.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“will answer your enquiries, and will say, That is good which you can not lose against your will.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“The building in the course of its erection, rises up on high, but he who digs its foundation, must first go down very low.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church

“This surely, this is to glorify God, to give God thanks.”
― Church Fathers, The Complete Works of the Church Fathers: A total of 64 authors, and over 2,500 works of the Early Christian Church