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For in vice there lurks a counterfeit beauty: pride, for instance —even pride apes sublimity, whereas you are the only God, most high above all things. As for ambition, what does it crave but honors and glory, while you are worthy of honor beyond all others, and eternally glorious?
Augustine of Hippo, John E. Rotelle (Editor), Maria Boulding (Translator) • Confessions
To return today to the theology of the cross means avoiding one-sided presentations of it in tradition, and comprehending the crucified Christ in the light and context of his resurrection, and therefore of freedom and hope.
Jurgen Moltmann • The Crucified God: 40th Anniversary Edition
The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca • Stoic Six Pack (Illustrated): Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
that from God. (Philippians 1:28)
Joyce Meyer • Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
subscribed in 433 to a declaration – intended as a compromise between the Alexandrian and Antiochian positions – that Christ was one Person (that is, the eternal Son of God) possessing two complete natures (divine and human). Not
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.
Aurelius, Marcus • Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)
Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and the rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.