Clement of Alexandria Quotes on Life
Titus Flavius Clemens, known as Clement of Alexandria, was a Christian theologian and the first major teacher of the catechetical school at Alexandria, where he helped to shape a learned Christianity in dialogue with Greek philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Clement of Alexandria on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.”
Paedagogus ( The Instructor , c. 198 AD), 2. -
“It is monstrous for one to live in luxury while many are in want.”
Paedagogus ( The Instructor , c. 198 AD), Book II, Ch. 13 -
“We shall not err in alleging that all things necessary and profitable for life came to us from God, and that philosophy more especially was given to the Greeks, as a covenant peculiar to them, being, as it were, a stepping stone to the philosophy which is according to Christ.”
Stromata ( Miscellanies , c. 198–203 AD), VI, 8. -
“If, for instance, a man had a godless father or son or brother, who became a hindrance to his faith and an obstacle to the life above, let him not live in fellowship or agreement with him, but let him dissolve the fleshly relationship on account of the spiritual antagonism.”
The Rich Man's Salvation | p. 317