Wisdom which is God-given, as being the power of the Father, rouses indeed our free-will, and admits faith, and repays the application of the elect with its crowning fellowship.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book V
Chapter XIII
Quotes
Apophatic theology
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
To be incorruptible is to participate in divinity
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
Clement quotes a lost logoi of Jesus
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
Clement quotes Barnabus
“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
Faith is the ear of the soul
Now faith is the ear of the soul.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book V
Chapter I
The soul is not sent down from heaven
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
Clement quotes Clement of Rome as an Apostle
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
Death is the fellowship of the soul in a state of sin with the body
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
Peace is a struggle against lust
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