Top 30 Athanasius of Alexandria Quotes (2024 Update)

Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.”

1. “If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.”

— Athanasius of Alexandria

Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “God became man so that man might become a god.”

2. “God became man so that man might become a god.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “For no part of Creation is left void of him: he has filled all things everywhere...”

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

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.”

4. “Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.”

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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.”

6. “You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.”

8. “Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.”

9. “The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “For God is good – or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.”

10. “For God is good – or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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.”

11. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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.”

12. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.”

13. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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.”

14. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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.”

15. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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.”

16. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.”

17. “For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “The answer is this. 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.”

18. “The answer is this. 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

Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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.”

19. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “It was a dictum of his that the soul’s energy thrives when the body’s desires are feeblest.”

20. “It was a dictum of his that the soul’s energy thrives when the body’s desires are feeblest.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that “nothing happens” when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.”

21. “For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that “nothing happens” when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.”

— Athanasius of Alexandria

Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “Athanasius contra mundum.”

22. “Athanasius contra mundum.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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;.”

23. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound hand and foot the passers-by sneer at him, hitting him and abusing him, no longer afraid of his cruelty and rage, because of the king who has conquered him. So has death been conquered.”

24. “Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound hand and foot the passers-by sneer at him, hitting him and abusing him, no longer afraid of his cruelty and rage, because of the king who has conquered him. So has death been conquered.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “A king who has founded a city, so far from neglecting it when through the carelessness of the inhabitants it is attacked by robbers, avenges it and saves it from destruction, having regard rather to his own honour than to the people’s neglect.”

25. “A king who has founded a city, so far from neglecting it when through the carelessness of the inhabitants it is attacked by robbers, avenges it and saves it from destruction, having regard rather to his own honour than to the people’s neglect.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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?”

26. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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.”

27. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “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.”

28. “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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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “He, the Life of all, our Lord and Savior, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He should seem to be afraid of some other kind. No. He accepted and bore upon the cross a death inflicted by others, and those others His special enemies, a death which to them was supremely terrible and by no means to be faced; and He did this in order that, by destroying even this death, He might Himself be believed to be the Life, and the power of death be recognized as finally annulled.”

29. “He, the Life of all, our Lord and Savior, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He should seem to be afraid of some other kind. No. He accepted and bore upon the cross a death inflicted by others, and those others His special enemies, a death which to them was supremely terrible and by no means to be faced; and He did this in order that, by destroying even this death, He might Himself be believed to be the Life, and the power of death be recognized as finally annulled.”

— Athanasius of Alexandria

Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “This distinctness of things argues not a spontaneous generation but a prevenient Cause; and from that Cause we can apprehend.”

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

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “A new book is still on its trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it.”

31. “A new book is still on its trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it.”

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Athanasius of Alexandria Quote: “It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.”

32. “It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.”

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