Frasi di Gregorio Nazianzeno
Gregorio Nazianzeno
Data di nascita: 329
Data di morte: 25. Gennaio 389
Gregorio Nazianzeno, anche Gregorio il Teologo , è stato un vescovo e teologo greco antico; fu maestro di san Girolamo. Venerato dalle Chiese cristiane, è riconosciuto dalla Chiesa cattolica come Dottore e Padre della Chiesa. È uno dei Padri cappadoci.
Frasi Gregorio Nazianzeno
„Se non fossi tuo, o mio Cristo, mi sarebbe stata fatta un'ingiustizia.“
da A Cristo, in Poesie, traduzione di Carmelo Crimi e Ivano Costa, Città Nuova, 1999, vol. II, 1, 74
„Non appena concepisco l'Uno, sono illuminato dallo splendore dei Tre; non appena distinguo i Tre ritorno di nuovo all'Uno. Quando penso a uno dei Tre, penso a lui come a un tutto, e i miei occhi si riempiono, e gran parte di ciò che sto pensando mi sfugge.“
da Orazione, 40, 41
Origine: Citato in Karen Armstrong, Storia di Dio: 4000 anni di religioni monoteiste, traduzione di Aldo Mosca, Marsilio Editori, 1995, p. 126.
„Dio è diviso senza divisione, se così posso esprimermi, e unito nella divisione. La Divinità è una in tre e tre in una…“
Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro delle religioni, traduzione di Anna Carbone, Gribaudo, 2017, p. 216. ISBN 9788858015810
„I offer this gift to my God, I dedicate this gift to Him. Only this remains to me as my treasure. I gave up everything else at the command of the Spirit. I gave all that I had to obtain the pearl of great price. Only in words do I master it, as a servant of the Word. I would never intentionally wish to disdain this wealth. I esteem it, I set value by it, I am comforted by it more than others are comforted by all the treasures of the world. It is the companion of all my life, a good counselor and converser; a guide on the way to Heaven and a fervent co-ascetic.“
Concerning his literary gift
Origine: "St. Gregory the Theologian the Archbishop of Constantinople" https://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/01/25/100298-st-gregory-the-theologian-the-archbishop-of-constantinople
„But as the old confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.“
On Pentecost, Oration 41, Chapter XVI.
Origine: http://www.orthodoxchurchquotes.com/2014/06/10/st-gregory-nazianzen-but-as-the-old-confusion-of-tongues-was-laudable-when-men-who-were-of-one-language-in-wickedness-and-impiety/
„Let me be as the Prophet Jonah! I was responsible for the storm, but I would sacrifice myself for the salvation of the ship. Seize me and throw me... I was not happy when I ascended the throne, and gladly would I descend it.“
Concerning his resignment from his office as Patriarch of Constantinople