Gregory Thaumaturgus quotes

Gregory Thaumaturgus quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.”
-- Gregory Thaumaturgus

Source : Gregory Thaumaturgus (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Gregory Thaumaturgus (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”
“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”
“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”
“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”
“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”
“Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.”
“Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.”
“Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.”

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