Eusebius Of Nicomedia Quotes

#1. Make disciples of all the nations in my Name. #Quote by Eusebius

#2. Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you have received from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church? You introduce novelties! #Quote by Eusebius

#3. He, although he received no symbols and types of high priesthood from any one, although he was not born of a race of priests, although he was not elevated to a kingdom by military guards, although he was not a prophet like those of old, although he obtained no honor nor pre-eminence among the Jews, nevertheless was adorned by the Father with all, if not with the symbols, yet with the truth itself. #Quote by Eusebius

#4. It is my purpose also to give the names and number and times of those who through love of innovation have run into the greatest errors, and, proclaiming themselves discoverers of knowledge falsely so-called [1 Timothy 6:20] have like fierce wolves unmercifully devastated the flock of Christ. #Quote by Eusebius

#5. Supporters of apokatastasis in roughly chronological order:

-[c. 30-105] Apostle Paul and various NT authors
-[c. 80-150] Scattered likely references among Apostolic Fathers
oIgnatius
oJustin Martyr
oTatian
oTheophilus of Antioch (explicit references)
-[130-202] Irenaeus
-[c. 150-200] Pantaenus of Alexandria
-[150-215] Clement of Alexandria
-[154-222] Bardaisan of Edessa
-[c. 184-253] Origen (including The Dialogue of Adamantius)
-[♱ 265] Dionysius of Alexandria
-[265-280] Theognustus
-[c. 250-300] Hieracas
-[♱ c. 309] Pierius
-[♱ c. 309] St Pamphilus Martyr
-[♱ c. 311] Methodius of Olympus
-[251-306] St. Anthony
-[c. 260-340] Eusebius
-[c. 270-340] St. Macrina the Elder
-[conv. 355] Gaius Marius Victorinus (converted at very old age)
-[300-368] Hilary of Poitiers
-[c. 296-373] Athanasius of Alexandria
-[♱ c. 374] Marcellus of Ancrya
-[♱378] Titus of Basra/Bostra
-[c. 329-379] Basil the Cappadocian
-[327-379] St. Macrina the Younger
-[♱387] Cyril of Jerusalem (possibly)
-[c. 300-388] Paulinus, bishop of Tyre and then Antioch
-[c. 329-390] Gregory Nazianzen
-[♱ c. 390] Apollinaris of Laodicaea
-[♱ c. 390] Diodore of Tarsus
-[330-390] Gregory of Nyssa
-[c. 310/13-395/8] Didymus the Blind of Alexandria
-[333-397] Ambrose of Milan
-[345-399] Evagrius Ponticus
-[♱407] Theotimus of Scythia
#Quote by Ilaria Ramelli

#6. The religion of Jesus Christ is neither new nor strange. #Quote by Eusebius

#7. Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion. This may suffice for this subject. #Quote by Eusebius

#8. If Paul brought the first generation of Christians the useful skills of a trained theologian, Origen was the first great philosopher to rethink the new religion from first principles. As his philosophical enemy, the anti-Christian Porphyry, summed it up, he 'introduced Greek ideas to foreign fables' -- that is, gave a barbarous eastern religion the intellectual respectability of a philosophical defense. Origen was also a phenomenon. As Eusebius put it admiringly, 'even the facts from his cradle are worth mentioning'. Origen came from Alexandria, the second city of the empire and then it's intellectual centre; his father's martyrdom left him an orphan at seventeen with six younger brothers. He was a hard working prodigy, at eighteen head of the Catechetical School, and already trained as a literary scholar and teacher. But at this point, probably in 203, he became a religious fanatic and remained one for the next fifty years. He gave up his job and sold his books to concentrate on religion. he slept on the floor, ate no meat, drank no wine, had only one coat and no shoes. He almost certainly castrated himself, in obedience to the notorious text, Matthew 19:12, 'there are some who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.' Origen's learning was massive and it was of a highly original kind: he always went back to the sources and thought through the whole process himself. This he learned Hebrew and, according to Eusebius, 'got into his possession the original #Quote by Paul Johnson

#9. May I be an enemy to no one and the friend of what abides eternally.
May I never quarrel with those nearest me, and be reconciled quickly if I should.
May I never plot evil against others, and if anyone plot evil against me,
may I escape unharmed and without the need to hurt anyone else.
May I love, seek and attain only what is good.
May I desire happiness for all and harbor envy for none.
May I never find joy in the misfortune of one who has wronged me.
May I never wait for the rebuke of others, but always rebuke myself until I make reparation.
May I gain no victory that harms me or my opponent.
May I reconcile friends who are mad at each other.
May I, insofar as I can, give all necessary help to my friends and to all who are in need.
May I never fail a friend in trouble.
May I be able to soften the pain of the
grief stricken and give them comforting words.
May I respect myself.
May I always maintain control of my emotions.
May I habituate myself to be gentle, and never angry with others because of circumstances.
May I never discuss the wicked or what they have done, but know good people and follow in their footsteps.
[Prayer to practice the Golden Rule] #Quote by Eusebius

#10. The Lord created me in the beginning of his ways, for his works; before the world he established me, in the beginning, before he made the earth, before he made the depths, before the mountains were settled, #Quote by Eusebius

#11. From afar they raise their voices like torches, and they cry out, as from some lofty and conspicuous watchtower, admonishing us where to walk and how to direct the course of our work steadily and safely. #Quote by Eusebius

#12. On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs. #Quote by Eusebius

#13. For immediately in the beginning, after his original life of blessedness, the first man despised the command of God, and fell into this mortal and perishable state, and exchanged his former divinely inspired luxury for this curse-laden earth. His descendants having filled our earth, showed themselves much worse, with the exception of one here and there, and entered upon a certain brutal and insupportable mode of life. #Quote by Eusebius

#14. Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our narrative of the government of God will record in ineffaceable letters the most peaceful wars waged in behalf of the peace of the soul. #Quote by Eusebius

#15. But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our impieties, having recovered us who were not half dead merely, but were already in tombs and sepulchers, and altogether foul and offensive, saves us, both anciently and now, by his beneficent zeal, beyond the expectation of any one, even of ourselves, and imparts liberally of the Father's benefits - he who is the giver of life and light, our great Physician and King and Lord, the Christ of God. #Quote by Eusebius

#16. The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion. #Quote by Edward Gibbon

#17. [God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men. #Quote by Eusebius

#18. Of all evils, indeed, famine is the worst, and it destroys nothing so effectively as shame. For that which under other circumstances is worthy of respect, in the midst of famine is despised. Thus women snatched the food from the very mouths of their husbands and children, from their fathers, and what was most pitiable of all, mothers from their babes. And while their dearest ones were wasting away in their arms, they were not ashamed to take away from them the last drops that supported life. #Quote by Eusebius

#19. Eusebius strongly challenges believers of all times on their approach to the events of history and of the Church in particular. He also challenges us: what is our attitude with regard to the Church's experiences? Is it the attitude of those who are interested in it merely out of curiosity, or even in search of something sensational or shocking at all costs? Or is it an attitude full of love and open to the mystery of those who know - through faith - that they can trace in the history of the Church those signs of God's love and the great works of salvation wrought by him? #Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

#20. I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more. #Quote by Eusebius

#21. But most wonderful of all is the fact that we who have consecrated ourselves to him, honor him not only with our voices and with the sound of words, but also with complete elevation of soul, so that we choose to give testimony unto him rather than to preserve our own lives. #Quote by Eusebius

#22. May I gain no victory that harms me or my opponent. May I reconcile friends who are mad at each other. May I, insofar as I can, give all necessary help to my friends and to all who are in need. May I never fail a friend in trouble.
Prayer on the Golden Rule (abridged) #Quote by Eusebius

#23. A funeral is not a funeral if beetroot salad does not make an appearance. Mrs #Quote by Eusebius McKaiser