Clement of Alexandria

It is monstrous for one to live in luxury while many are in want.

— Clement of Alexandria

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.

— Clement of Alexandria

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

— Clement of Alexandria

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

— Clement of Alexandria

How can it not be necessary, for him who wishes to lay hold of the power of God, to philosophise and to grasp with comprehension intellectual concepts?

— Clement of Alexandria