Pope Clement I Quotes

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.