What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.
Gregory of NazianzusGive something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.
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 NazianzusWhen one has looked upon Jesus, though he be of little stature like Zacchaeus of old (cf. Lk. 19:3), and climb up on the top of the sycamore tree by mortifying his members which are upon the earth (cf. Col. 3:5), and having risen above the body of humiliation, then he shall receive the Word, and it shall be said to him, This day has salvation come to this house (cf. Lk. 19:9). Then let him lay hold on the salvation, and bring forth fruit more perfectly, scattering and pouring forth rightly that which as a publican he wrongly gathered.
Gregory of Nazianzus