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Top 20 Gregory of Nyssa Quotes (2025 Update)

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?”

1. “For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.”

2. “Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “He who gives you the day will also give you the things necessary for the day.”

3. “He who gives you the day will also give you the things necessary for the day.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.”

4. “Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.”

5. “May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “It is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are.”

6. “It is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.”

7. “That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.”

8. “Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “God’s name is not known; it is wondered at.”

9. “God’s name is not known; it is wondered at.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings.”

10. “We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.”

11. “Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ.”

12. “As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.”

13. “Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.”

14. “The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “Christ is the artist, tenderly wiping away all the grime of sin that disfigures the human face and restoring God’s image to its full beauty.”

15. “Christ is the artist, tenderly wiping away all the grime of sin that disfigures the human face and restoring God’s image to its full beauty.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.”

16. “If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love.”

17. “Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.”

18. “For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “Moses’ vision of God began with light; afterwards God spoke to him in a cloud. But when Moses rose higher and became more perfect, he saw God in the darkness.”

19. “Moses’ vision of God began with light; afterwards God spoke to him in a cloud. But when Moses rose higher and became more perfect, he saw God in the darkness.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “So when did these last two originate? They transcend “whenness,” but if I must give a naive answer – when the Father did. When was that? There has not been a “when” when the Father has not been in existence. This, then, is true of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Put another question and I will answer it. Since when has the Son been begotten? Since as long as the Father has not been begotten.”

20. “So when did these last two originate? They transcend “whenness,” but if I must give a naive answer – when the Father did. When was that? There has not been a “when” when the Father has not been in existence. This, then, is true of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Put another question and I will answer it. Since when has the Son been begotten? Since as long as the Father has not been begotten.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “Time had not altered the beauty of his countenance, nor darkened the brightness of his eyes. He continued on the same, preserved in an incorruptible beauty in the corruptibleness of nature.”

21. “Time had not altered the beauty of his countenance, nor darkened the brightness of his eyes. He continued on the same, preserved in an incorruptible beauty in the corruptibleness of nature.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “Just as many questions might be started for debate among people sitting up at night as to the kind of thing that sunshine is, and then the simple appearing of it in all its beauty would render any verbal description superfluous, so every calculation that tries to arrive conjecturally at the future state will be reduced to nothingness by the object of our hopes, when it comes upon us.”

22. “Just as many questions might be started for debate among people sitting up at night as to the kind of thing that sunshine is, and then the simple appearing of it in all its beauty would render any verbal description superfluous, so every calculation that tries to arrive conjecturally at the future state will be reduced to nothingness by the object of our hopes, when it comes upon us.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth.”

23. “But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa Quote: “He was transfused throughout our nature, in order that our nature might by this transfusion of the Divine become itself divine, rescued as it was from death, and put beyond the reach of the caprice of the antagonist.”

24. “He was transfused throughout our nature, in order that our nature might by this transfusion of the Divine become itself divine, rescued as it was from death, and put beyond the reach of the caprice of the antagonist.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

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