Top 50 Quotes About Athanasius

#1. We see the fitness of His death and of those outstretched arms: it was that He might draw His ancient people with the one and the Gentiles with the other, and join both together in Himself.

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#2. There were thus two things which the Savior did for us by becoming Man. He banished death from us and made us anew; and, invisible and imperceptible as in Himself He is, He became visible through His works and revealed Himself as the Word of the Father, the Ruler and King of the whole creation.

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#3. 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.

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#4. For God has not only created us from nothing, but also granted us by the grace of the Word to live a life according to God.

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

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#6. Evil, then consists essentially in the choice of what is lower in preference to what is higher.

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#7. For we were the purpose of his embodiment, and for our salvation he so loved human beings as to come to be and appear in a human body.

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#8. One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

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

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#10. The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

Thomas Jefferson

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#11. You will remain theologically uneducated until you study carefully Athanasius, Augustine and Aquinas.

Thomas C. Oden

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#12. Whoever has the desire to pursue philosophy correctly should look to Nature's Archetype in every matter, so that by taking up Ariadne's thread in her intricate labyrinth he may keep himself safe and secure from wrong turns and deviant paths.

Athanasius Kircher

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#13. This distinctness of things argues not a spontaneous generation but a prevenient Cause; and from that Cause we can apprehend

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#14. Revelation is for human salvation, the mending of human brokenness (Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word 3).

Thomas C. Oden

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#15. The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.

Gillian Bradshaw

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#16. Heracles is worshipped as a god by the Greeks because he fought with humans equal to himself and killed wild beasts by guile. But what was that compared to what was done by the Word, who banished sicknesses and demons and death itself from human beings?

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#17. The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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#18. So purity of soul is sufficient of itself to reflect God, as the Lord also says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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

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#20. (2) In regard to the making of the universe and the creation of all things there have been various opinions, and each person has propounded the theory that suited his own taste. For instance, some say that all things are self-originated and,

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#21. For by nature human beings are afraid of death and of the dissolution of the body. But this is most amazing, that one who has put on the faith of the cross scorns even things according to nature, and is not afraid of death because of Christ.

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#22. Two historical figures play prominent roles in this book: a pair of priests who lived centuries apart but who were tied together by fate. During the seventeenth century, Father Athanasius Kircher was known as the Leonardo da Vinci of the Jesuit Order.

James Rollins

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#23. 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.

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

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#25. The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good.

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#26. God became man so that man might become a god.

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

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#28. 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 of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

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

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

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#31. Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.

Athanasius Kircher

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#32. Christ was made man that we might be made God.

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

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

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

St.Athanasius

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#36. 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.

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#37. The Greek philosophers have compiled many works with persuasiveness and much skill in words; but what fruit have they to show for this such as has the cross of Christ? Their wise thoughts were persuasive enough until they died;

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#38. 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 of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

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#39. 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 that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

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#40. Our Lord took on a body like ours and lived as a man in order that those who had refused to recognize Him in His superintendence and capacity of the whole universe might come to recognize from the works He did here below in the body that what dwelled in this body was the Word of God.

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#41. He became what we are so that he might make us what he is.

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#42. 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.

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#43. the presence of the Word with them shielded them even from natural corruption,

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

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#45. One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans ... read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Apuleius or Tertullian, Augustine or Athanasius. The uncanny voice of Iberian Spain, the weirdness of old Carthage, the passion of Libya and North Africa.

D.H. Lawrence

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#46. Idolatry, especially that of the body, is for Athanasius a kind of barometer, measuring the perversity into which humans have fallen, the degree to which their knowledge of God has been lost, and the extent to which the image of God in them obscured, the consequence of which is corruption and death.

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#47. A new book is still on its trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it.

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#48. Through death deathlessness has been made known to us,

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#49. The world is bound in secret knots.

Athanasius Kircher

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

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