Athanasius of Alexandria famous quotes

03-22-2025

The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Self #Depth #World
God became man so that man might become a god.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Men #Might
Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Christian #Prayer #Hands
Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Jesus #Sight #Creation
You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria
Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Jesus
For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Fountainhead #Goodness
In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as though they perished. But now that the Savior has raised his body, death is no longer terrible; for all who believe in Christ trample on it as it were nothing and choose rather to die than deny their faith in Christ. And that devil that once maliciously exulted in death, now that its pains were loosed, remained the only one truly dead.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Pain #Believe #Devil
The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. But for Him Who came to heal and to teach the way was not merely to dwell here, but to put Himself at the disposal of those who needed Him, and to be manifested according as they could bear it, not vitiating the value of the Divine appearing by exceeding their capacity to receive it.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Men #Suffering #Dazzle
Christ was made man that we might be made God.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Men #Might #Christ
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Deceit #Creation #Lord
He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Christian #Jesus #Christian Inspirational
For no part of Creation is left void of him: he has filled all things everywhere...
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Void #Creation #Filled
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.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Kindness #Soul #Might
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i.e., Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Sarcastic #Father #Son

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