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As virtue is a thing that has no master, that is, is free, everything that is free will be united with virtue.

— Gregory of Nyssa

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The love of gain, which is a large, incalculably large, element in every soul, when once applied to the desire for God, will bless the man who has it.

Every concept that comes from some comprehensible image, by an approximate understanding and by guessing at the Divine nature, constitutes an idol of God and does not proclaim God.

Who gives you the day will give you also the things necessary for the day.

God's name is not known; it is wondered at.

The word of God, in fact, promises life just as the effect of death.

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