On The Incarnation

by Athanasius of Alexandria

Forty years after the De Incarnatione, he wrote to his friends the monks about another book that he had tried to write, “the more I desired to write and endeavoured to force myself to understand the Divinity of the Word, so much the more did the knowledge thereof withdraw itself from me; and in proportion as I thought that I had apprehended it, in so much I perceived myself to fail of doing so. Moreover also, I was unable to express in writing even what I seemed to myself to understand, and that which I wrote was unequal to the imperfect shadow of the truth which existed in my conception.”

But men cannot run everywhere over the world, nor would their words carry sufficient weight if they did, nor would they be, unaided, a match for the evil spirits.

Why charities without the power of the Gospel are limited in good works.

it is better to put the same thing in several ways than to run the risk of leaving something out.

Interesting writing advice.