If, then, abstracting all that belongs to bodies and things called incorporeal, we cast ourselves into the greatness of Christ, and thence advance into immensity by holiness, we may reach somehow to the conception of the Almighty, knowing not what He is, but what He is not.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book V
Chapter XI
For he who has not the knowledge of good is wicked: for there is one good, the Father; and to be ignorant of the Father is death, as to know Him is eternal life, through participation in the power of the incorrupt One. And to be incorruptible is to participate in divinity; but revolt from the knowledge of God brings corruption.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book V
Chapter X
For it is not in the way of envy that the Lord announced in a Gospel, “My mystery is to me, and to the sons of my house;” placing the election in safety, and beyond anxiety; so that the things pertaining to what it has chosen and taken may be above the reach of envy.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book V
Chapter X
“It is incumbent on us to cleave to the saints, because they that cleave to them shall be sanctified.”
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book V
Chapter VIII
Now faith is the ear of the soul.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book V
Chapter I
The soul is not then sent down from heaven to what is worse. For God works all things up to what is better. But the soul which has chosen the best life—the life that is from God and righteousness—exchanges earth for heaven.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book IV
Chapter XXVI
Moreover, in the Epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Clement also, drawing a picture of the Gnostic, says: “For who that has sojourned among you has not proved your perfect and firm faith? and has not admired your sound and gentle piety? and has not celebrated the munificent style of your hospitality? and has not felicitated your complete and sure knowledge? For ye did all things impartially, and walked in the ordinances of God;” and so forth.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book IV
Chapter XVII
The assertion, then, may be hazarded, that it has been shown that death is the fellowship of the soul in a state of sin with the body; and life the separation from sin.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book IV
Chapter III
For peace and freedom are not otherwise won, than by ceaseless and unyielding struggles with our lusts.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter XX
And it prohibits an ox and ass to be yoked in the plough together; pointing perhaps to the want of agreement in the case of the animals; and at the same time teaching not to wrong any one belonging to another race, and bring him under the yoke, when there is no other cause to allege than difference of race, which is no cause at all, being neither wickedness nor the effect of wickedness.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter XVIII