37 Quotes by Athanasius of Alexandria

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.

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.

It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one to every three new ones.-C.S. Lewis in Introduction to Athanasius' "On the Incarnation)

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

Christ was made man that we might be made God.

God became man so that man might become a god.

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