7 Quotes by Johannes Scotus Eriugena



  • Author Johannes Scotus Eriugena
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    Christ wears “two shoes” in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

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  • Author Johannes Scotus Eriugena
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    Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.

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    Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.

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    The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it.

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