Gospel of Thomas Quotes

“Gospel of Philip”

“Nag Hammadi library”

“Thou art like a philosopher of the heart.”

“Whoever has found the world and become enriched, let him renounce the world.”

“I have cast fire upon the world — and behold, I guard it until it is ablaze.”

“He who knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything.”

“Woe to the flesh which depends upon the soul, woe to the soul which depends upon the flesh!”

“Behold the Living-One while you are alive, lest you die and seek to perceive him and be unable to see.”

“Wikipedia: Gospel of Thomas”

“Whoever has recognized the world has found the body; yet whoever has found the body, of him the world is not worthy.”

“Within a person of light there is light, and he illumines the entire world. When he does not shine, there is darkness.”

“I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended.”

“The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days concerning the place of life.”

“Your rulers and your dignitaries are those who are clad in plush garments, and they shall not be able to recognize the truth.”

“This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.”

“The Gospel of Thomas Collection at the Gnostic Society Library”

“Unless ye fast from the world, ye shall not find the Sovereignty; unless ye keep the entire week as Sabbath, ye shall not behold the Father.”

“His disciples say to him, ... when will the New World come? He says to them: That which you look for has already come, but you do not recognize it.”

“Why do you wash the outside of the chalice? Do you not comprehend that He who creates the inside, is also He who creates the outside?”

“You read the face of the sky and of the earth, but you have not recognized the one who is before you, and you do not know how to read this moment.”