Athanasius Quotes
- The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
- These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine…
- One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
- Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity…
- 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…
- Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril…