Athanasius Quotes

He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is.

You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.

Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.

God became man so that man might become a god.

Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

For no part of Creation is left void of him: he has filled all things everywhere.

For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

Christ was made man that we might be made God.

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.

Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.

The world is bound in secret knots.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

But if they are shown to be, and are the works not of men but of God, why are the unbelievers so irreligious as not to recognize the Master Who did them?

For, indeed, everything about is marvelous, and wherever a man turns his gaze he sees the Godhead of the Word and is smitten with awe.

It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.