Thomas the Apostle quotes

Thomas the Apostle was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ, often remembered for doubting Jesus’s resurrection until he saw Him. His journey is associated with spreading Christianity to regions such as India. He is revered as a symbol of faith and inquiry among Christians. Here are 28 of his quotes:

My Lord and my God. (Thomas the Apostle)
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. View quote
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Your rulers and your dignitaries are those who are clad in plush garments, and they shall not be able to recognize the truth. View quote
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When you bring forth that which is within yourselves, this that you have shall save you. If you do not have that within yourselves, this which you do not have within you will kill you. View quote
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Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either on earth or in heaven. View quote
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When you make the two one, and you make the inside as the outside and the outside as the inside and the above as the below, and if you establish the male with the female as a single unity so that the man will not act masculine and the woman not act feminine, ... -then shall you enter the Sovereignty. View quote
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I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended. View quote
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Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty. View quote
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Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All. View quote
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It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying 'Here it is' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it. View quote
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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? (Thomas the Apostle)
Within a person of light there is light, and he illumines the entire world. When he does not shine, there is darkness. View quote
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Whoever has recognized the world has found the body; yet whoever has found the body, of him the world is not worthy. View quote
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The Disciples say to Yeshua: Tell us how our end shall be. Yeshua says: Have you then discovered the origin, so that you inquire about the end? For at the place where the origin is, there shall be the end. Blest is he who shall stand at the origin. View quote
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Woe to the flesh which depends upon the soul, woe to the soul which depends upon the flesh! View quote
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Whoever has found the world and become enriched, let him renounce the world. View quote
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Thou art like a philosopher of the heart. View quote
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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. View quote
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Behold the Living-One while you are alive, lest you die and seek to perceive him and be unable to see. View quote
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The person old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days concerning the place of life. View quote
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This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. (Thomas the Apostle)
He who knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything. View quote
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I have cast fire upon the world - and behold, I guard it until it is ablaze. View quote
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The Sovereignty of the Father is like a woman who is carrying a jar full of grain. While she was walking on a distant road, the handle of the jar broke, the grain streamed out behind her onto the road. She did not observe it, she had noticed no accident. When she arrived in her house, she set the jar down-she found it empty. View quote
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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. View quote
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