26 Quotes by Irenaeus of Lyons

Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.

For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that its water is salt.

He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God.

The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.

Jesus Christ, in His infinite love, has become what we are, in order that He may make us entirely what He is.

The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.