Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No, we use facts connected with Him to outline qualities that correspond with Him, collecting a faint and feeble mental image from various quarters. Our noblest theologian is not one who has discovered the whole - our earthly shackles do not permit us the whole - but one whose mental image is by comparison fuller, who has gathered in his mind a richer picture, outline, or whatever we call it, of the truth.
Gregory of NazianzusThese three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.
Gregory of NazianzusIt is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.
Gregory of NazianzusAll who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living
Gregory of NazianzusIt is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.
Gregory of Nazianzus...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.
Gregory of NazianzusDo you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?... If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?
Gregory of Nazianzus