Gregory of Nazianzus
4th century · AD 390 · Eastern & Byzantine · 285 passages
Called "the Theologian" for his orations on the Trinity, written with unusual poetic power.
Background on Gregory of Nazianzus
In his own words on Romans
- Romans 1:23
People like this make it hard to tell which was the more contemptible, the worshipers or the worshiped. Perhaps the worshipers by far, since as rational beings and recipients of God's grace, they chose their inferior for patron and better.
ORATION 28: ON GOD 28.15
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.