Quotes from Pope Clement I

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.