The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books) Quotes

“But as to Gentile wisdom, and the sounding pretensions of the philosophers, I think none can need our argument, since the wonder is before the eyes of all, that while the wise among the Greeks had written so much, and were unable to persuade even a few from their own neighbourhood, concerning immortality and a virtuous life, Christ alone, by ordinary language, and by men not clever with the tongue, has throughout all the world persuaded whole churches full of men to despise death, and to mind the things of immortality;”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“For formerly the whole world and every place was led astray by the worshipping of idols, and men regarded nothing else but the idols as gods. But now, all the world over, men are deserting the superstition of the idols, and taking refuge with Christ; and, worshipping Him as God, are by His means coming to know that Father also Whom they knew not.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“For what more is there for him whom they expect to do, when he has come? To call the heathen? But they are called already. To make prophecy, and king, and vision to cease? This too has already come to pass. To expose the godlessness of idolatry? It is already exposed and condemned. Or to destroy death? He is already destroyed. 7. What then has not come to pass, that the Christ must do? What is left unfulfilled, that the Jews should now disbelieve with impunity? For if, I say—which is just what we actually see—there is no longer king nor prophet nor Jerusalem nor sacrifice nor vision among them, but even the whole earth is filled with the knowledge of God, and Gentiles, leaving their godlessness, are now taking refuge with the God of Abraham, through the Word, even our Lord Jesus”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“But if, because He is not seen, His having risen at all is disbelieved, it is high time for those who refuse belief to deny the very course of Nature. For it is God's peculiar property at once to be invisible and yet to be known from His works, as has been already stated above.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“will any one still hold his mind in doubt whether a Resurrection has been accomplished by the Saviour, and whether Christ is alive, or rather is Himself the Life?”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“For who that saw Him give back what was deficient to men born lacking, and open the eyes of the man blind from his birth, would have failed to perceive that the nature of men was subject to Him, and that He was its Artificer and Maker?”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“For just as, though invisible, He is known through the works of creation; so, having become man, and being in the body unseen, it may be known from His works that He Who can do these is not man, but the Power and Word of God.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“And this was the wonderful thing that He was at once walking as man, and as the Word was quickening all things, and as the Son was dwelling with His Father.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“And this was the wonderful thing that He was at once walking as man, and as the Word was quickening all things, and”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“So, men as they were, and human in all their thoughts, on whatever objects they fixed their senses, there they saw themselves met half-way , and taught the truth from every side. 4. For if they looked with awe upon the Creation, yet they saw how she confessed Christ as Lord; or if their mind was swayed toward men, so as to think them gods, yet from the Saviour's works, supposing they compared them, the Saviour alone among men appeared Son of God; for there were no such works done among the rest as have been done by the Word of God. 5. Or if they were biassed toward evil spirits, even, yet seeing them cast out by the Word, they were to know that He alone, the Word of God, was God, and that the spirits were none. 6. Or if their mind had already sunk even to the dead, so as to worship heroes, and the gods spoken of in the poets, yet, seeing the Saviour's resurrection, they were to confess them to be false gods, and that the Lord alone is true, the Word of the Father, that was Lord even of death. 7. For this cause He was both born and appeared as Man, and died, and rose again, dulling and casting into the shade the works of all former men by His own, that in whatever direction the bias of men might be, from thence He might recall them, and teach them of His own true Father, as He Himself says: ​"​ I came to save and to find that which was lost. ​"​”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“did not raise their heads toward the truth, but loaded themselves the more with evils and sins, so as no longer to seem rational, but from their ways to be reckoned void of reason.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“He gives them a share in His own Image, our Lord Jesus Christ, and makes them after His own Image and after His likeness: so that by such grace perceiving the Image, that is, the Word of the Father, they may be able through Him to get an idea of the Father, and knowing their Maker, live the happy and truly blessed life.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive:”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“it belonged to none other to bring man back from the corruption which had begun, than the Word of God, Who had also made them from the beginning.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“we thus judge, that if one died for all, then all died, and He died for all that we should no longer live unto ourselves, but unto Him”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“firstly, all being held to have died in Him, the law involving the ruin of men might be undone (inasmuch as its power was fully spent in the Lord's body, and had no longer holding-ground against men, his peers), and that, secondly, whereas men had turned toward corruption, He might turn them again toward incorruption, and quicken them from death by the appropriation of His body and by the grace of the Resurrection, banishing death from them like straw from the fire. 9.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“seeing, once more, the unseemliness of what had come to pass: that the things whereof He Himself was Artificer were passing away: seeing, further, the exceeding wickedness of men, and how little by little they had increased it to an intolerable pitch against themselves: and seeing, lastly, how all men were under penalty of death:”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“when transgression had once gained a start, men became involved in that corruption which was their nature, and were deprived of the grace which they had, being in the image of God,”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“For it will appear not inconsonant for the Father to have wrought its salvation in Him by Whose means He made it.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Complete Works of St. Athanasius (20 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible