If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.
Clement of AlexandriaWe say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God.
Clement of AlexandriaThe purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.
Clement of Alexandria