Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.
Gregory of NyssaConcepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.
Gregory of Nyssaand the creation, in the world and above the world, that once was at variance with itself, is knit together in friendship: and we ... are made to join in the angels' song, offering the worship of their praise.
Gregory of NyssaMots clés friendship angels christ
Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.
Gregory of NyssaConcepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
Gregory of NyssaThe three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.
Gregory of NyssaSOCIAL ANIMAL ALWAYS COME ACROSS SEVERAL COMPLICATIONS
Gregory of NyssaFor 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?
Gregory of NyssaMots clés philosophy theology church-fathers
Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.
Gregory of NyssaMots clés education secularism barrenness labor-without-fruit
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