26 Quotes by Irenaeus of Lyons

One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life.

Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.

God became man, that we might be gods.

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

But following the only true and stedfast Teacher, the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did, through His transcendent love, become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself.

For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace.

As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.

The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God.

The glory of God is the human person fully alive.