Ἦν βροτὸς, ἀλλὰ Θεός. Δαβὶδ γένος, ἀλλ’ Ἀδάμοιο
Πλάστης. Σαρκοφόρος μὲν, ἀτὰρ καὶ σώματος ἐκτός.
Μητρὸς, παρθενικῆς δέ· περίγραφος, ἀλλ’ ἀμέτρητος.
Καὶ φάτνη μὲν ἔδεκτο, Μάγοις δέ τε ἡγεμόνευεν
Ἀστὴρ, δωροφόροι δ’ ἄρ’ ἔβαν, καὶ γούνατ’ ἔκαμψαν.
Ὡς βροτὸς ἦλθ’ ἐπ’ ἀγῶνα, ὑπέρσχεθε δ’ ὡς ἀδάμαστος
Πειραστὴν τρισσοῖσι παλαίσμασιν· εἶδαρ ὑπέστη,
Θρέψε δὲ χιλιάδας, ὕδωρ τ’ εἰς οἶνον ἄμειψε.
Λούσατο, ἀλλ’ ἐκάθηρεν ἁμαρτάδας, [...]
Category Archives: Quotations
Περὶ Υἱοῦ (Concerning the Son)
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Worldly Wisdom
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
For [Gregory of Nyssa], the supreme example of how the believer could properly benefit from pagan learning was Moses, who had, according to the Book of Acts [7:22], “‘received a paideia in all the sophia of the Egyptians,’ a powerful speaker and a man of action.” Therefore “the paideia of the outsiders” was not to [...]
Poetry and History
Monday, January 10, 2011
Indeed the writings of Herodotus could be put into verse and yet would still be a kind of history, whether written in metre or not. The real difference is this, that one tells what happened and the other what might happen. For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry [...]
Walk Slowly
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
βαδιζέτω ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν τὴν ἐγγράφως τὰ ἄγραφα δηλοῦσαν… (Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.1.10.2-3)
Let him walk slowly upon the truth which in writing makes clear unwritten things.
A Little Admonition from Barth
Friday, April 10, 2009
Many Churches in this sense imply many Lords, many Spirits, many Gods. There is no question about it: to the degree to which Christendom exists in Churches which are really different and opposed to each other, to that degree she is denying in practice what she acknowledges in theory, the unity and uniqueness of God, [...]
Adler on Philosophy after Christianity
Friday, March 20, 2009
Modern gnosticism results from the efforts of thinkers to answer purely theological questions by merely natural means. The theodicy of Spinoza, the knowledge of the Absolute in Hegel, the discussion of the order of the universe in time and space by Whitehead, are examples of philosophy exceeding its domain. Though lacking faith, these philosophers do [...]
Solovyov On Love
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The meaning and worth of love as a feeling is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for another the same absolute significance that, because of the power of egoism, we are conscious of only in our own selves. Love is important, not only as one of our feelings but as [...]
Kafka On Parables
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily life, which is the only life we have. When the sage says: “Go over,” he does not mean that we should cross over to some actual place, which we could do anyhow if the labor were worth [...]
Child and Philosopher
Monday, September 15, 2008
Children complicate life, but so sweetly that they should serve to give the worker fresh courage rather than to lessen his resources. The little ones take much of you, and what good would they be if they did not now and then tease and tax you? But they hearten you just as much, and perhaps [...]
Eliot on Reading
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
There never was a time when the reading public was so large, or so helplessly exposed to the influence of its own time. There never was a time when those who read at all, read so many more books by living authors than books by dead authors. There never was a time so completely parochial, [...]