Christian sources

The collection Christian Sources is a collection of texts Patristique S, founded in Lyon in 1943 by the Jesuits Jean Daniélou, Henri de Lubac and Claude Mondésert.

Its works are generally bilingual (Greek-French or Latin - French); however certain Eastern texts, in particular syriaques, are available in translation alone.

The collection is published by the Institute of the Christian Sources, whose current director is Mr. Bernard Meunier, researcher at CNRS; it is published by the Éditions of the Stag.
It to date counts (April 2007) approximately 510 volumes. Among the Greek authors appear Origène, Clément of Alexandria, Jean Chrysostome and the Fathers cappadocians (Basile Large the, Gregoire the Theologist, Gregoire de Nysse); among Latin, Tertullien, Cyprien, Ambroise of Milan, Gregoire Large the, and also of the medieval authors like Bernard de Clairvaux or Syméon the New Theologist.

A under-collection, the edition of complete works of Philon of Alexandria, also exists.

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The site of the Christian Sources put in stringcourse ravelling some quotations extracted volumes published. Here:

After three days, during which Hypatios had requested the Lord Christ to give pure water to the monastery, he saw three men vêtus resplendent clothes. One of them took by the hand and led it towards a place: " Dig here and you will find eau." The following day, Hypatios brought with him all the brothers, requested lengthily, dug and found a water incomparable, pure and very soft. This place was at the same time close to the vault and to the kitchen… | CALLINICOS, Life of Hypatios, SC 177, p. 135

That which is enthusiast of truth does not pay attention to the words bales; it scans the action united with the word, which it is, which it is worth| THEOPHILUS Of ANTIOCHE, has Autolycus, SC 20, p. 59

If our Pères saints of formerly composed with so many zeal and piles work innumerable volumes for the utility of all the churches,… don't we have, at the very least, in the service of God, to make known with the public, for the safety of the hearts, which we find writes and prepared by the Pères saints? | CESAIRE Of ARLES, Sermons to people I, SC 175, p. 259

Just as God need for nothing does not have, in the same way the man needs the communion of God. Because the glory of the man, it is to persevere in the service of God | IRENEE OF LYON, Against the Heresies IV, SC 100, p. 541

Nothing is impossible with God, except lying! | CLEMENT OF ROME, Epistle to the Corinthians, SC 167, p. 145

The blacksmith, by the hammer, comes to end from the object which he wants: in the same way a daily language of justice comes to end from any turpitude| Pasteur d' Hermas, SC 53 (a), p. 85

The Verb of God lived in the man and was made Sons of man to accustom the man to seize God and accustom God to be inhabited in the man, according to the good pleasure of the Father| IRENEE OF LYON, Against the Heresies III, SC 211, p. 293

Where there are three faithful, there is a Church, even if they are the laic ones. | TERTULLIEN, Exhortation with chastity, SC 319, p. 93

When a dish contains more spices than of nutritive bodies, it is not there of the good kitchen; in the same way when the language gets to the listeners more approval than of utility, it is not there of good style| CLEMENT Of ALEXANDRIA, Stromates I, SC 30, p. 84

What in you I admire more, it is that is not to tighten a trap, like the majority of people today, that you installations of the questions, but to find truth| BASILE OF CESAREE, On the Holy Spirit, SC 17 (a), p. 253

The memory of this favor becomes pretext for the flesh: you can see in these days preparing sumptuous clothing, delicate mets, with as well of zeal as one would believe than Christ, for her birth, claims this type of things, and than it with dignity is accommodated where one them exhibe with more ostentation. But listening the Lord to say itself: The haughty glance, the insatiable heart, I did not eat with them| BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, Sermons on Advent III, 2, SC 480, p. 138-139

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