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 povert…

- Pope Clement I

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

- Pope Clement I

This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will …

- Pope Clement I

He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.

- Pope Clement I

Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in a c…

- Pope Clement I

... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received - the …

- 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.

- Pope Clement I

... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in time or superiority in nature of…

- Pope Clement I

Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor is it to be waste…

- Pope Clement I