Athanasius of Alexandria quote: "The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good."

Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the pr...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He shoul...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

He became what we are so that he might make us what he is.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

The body of the Word, then, being a real human body, in spite of its having been uniquely formed fro...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

You know how it is when some great king enters a large city and dwells in one of its houses; because...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

Even the very creation broke silence at His behest and, marvelous to relate, confessed with one voic...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

we see the fitness of His death and of those outstretched arms: it was that He might draw His ancien...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

The Greek philosophers have compiled many works with persuasiveness and much skill in words; but wha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

The answer is this. The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering ...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

For the Word, realizing that in no other way would the corruption of human beings be undone except, ...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

Heracles is worshipped as a god by the Greeks because he fought with humans equal to himself and kil...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

through death deathlessness has been made known to us,
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound ha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

This distinctness of things argues not a spontaneous generation but a prevenient Cause; and from tha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

For of what use is existence to the creature if it cannot know its Maker? How could men be reasonabl...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

repentance recall men from what is according to their nature; all that it does is to make them cease...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound ha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

The Savior is working mightily among men, every day He is invisibly persuading numbers of people all...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

You know how it is when some great king enters a large city and dwells in one of its houses; because...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

For, indeed, everything about is marvelous, and wherever a man turns his gaze he sees the Godhead of...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was te...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have r...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wan...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

Christ was made man that we might be made God.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

Dead men cannot take effective action; their power of influence on others lasts only till the grave....
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical...
RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons a...
HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA

For what is hairy is by nature drier and warmer than what is bare; therefore, the male is hairier an...
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA

Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frug...
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

And barbarians were inventors not only of philosophy, but almost of every art. The Egyptians were th...
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

And Pythagoras is reported to have been a disciple of Sonches the Egyptian arch-prophet; and Plato, ...
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own...
ATHANASIUS

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any r...
ATHANASIUS

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they co...
ATHANASIUS

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ATHANASIUS

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them b...
ATHANASIUS

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying t...
ATHANASIUS

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
ATHANASIUS

Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A man's personality actuates and qui...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Human and human-minded as men were, t...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Both from the confession of the evil...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of Philip & James, Apostles What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -...
ST. ATHANASIUS

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
ALEXANDRIA PENNEY

Love is impatient; love is cruel. It gets your hopes up then tears them down expecting you to be ok;...
ALEXANDRIA RHODES

He walked over to the piano and lifted the cover revealing black and white keys that my fingers knew...
ALEXANDRIA RHODES

Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which c...
ALEXANDRIA DAVID-NEEL

In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love t...
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH

I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH

My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week i...
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH

A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
LETTERS OF ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA

Teachers greatly influence how students perceive and approach struggle in the mathematics classroom....
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to ou...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and i...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myse...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do no...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild b...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an en...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be t...
JOAN OF ARC

In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
JOAN OF ARC

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the du...
JOAN OF ARC

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
JOAN OF ARC

Act, and God will act.
JOAN OF ARC

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
JOAN OF ARC

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec...
JOAN OF ARC

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. ...
JOAN OF ARC

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
JOAN OF ARC

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
JOAN OF ARC

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of...
TERESA OF AVILA

We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our e...
TERESA OF AVILA

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind...
LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to eve...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing va...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

I am the herald of the Great King.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them brigh...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no ene...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God...
TERESA OF AVILA

Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ru...
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE

He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals a...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at onc...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than ...
THALES OF MILETUS

If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.
SWAMWRA OF BASRA

Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
ZENO OF CITIUM

I don't exist when you don't see me.
SISTERS OF MERCY

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA

Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's wom...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.
TERESA OF AVILA

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and...
TERESA OF AVILA

You can't step twice into the same river.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a ...
MECHTHILD OF MAGHEBURG

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
TERESA OF AVILA

You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wea...
SISTERS OF MERCY

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILA

Hope is the poor man's bread.
THALES OF MILETUS

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
WILLIAM OF OCCAM

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. An...
JULIAN OF NORWICH

What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
ROBERT OF DONCASTE

True repentance is to cease from sinning.
AMBROSE OF MILAN

True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain ef...
TERESA OF AVILA

We
BAND OF BROTHERS

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerab...
CRITIAS OF ATHENS

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman un...
EARL OF ARRAN

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
ARCHIBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil...
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
TERESA OF AVILA

Shun security.
THALES OF MILETOS

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him th...
CATHERINE OF SIENA

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
XENOCRATES OF CHALCEDON

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MENANDER OF ATHENS

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of f...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Most men are bad.
BIAS OF PRIENE

Character is fate. (Destiny)
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnera...
CRITIAS OF ATHENS

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATES OF IPHICRATES

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest n...
MECHTHILD OF MAGDENBURG

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHAGORAS

Manners maketh man.
WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You as...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wick...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
ZENO OF CITIUM

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee...
MAXIMS OF PTAHHOTEP

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
HERMOCRATES OF SYRACUSE

From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintan...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA

Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, sho...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestin...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... sett...
JOAN OF ARC

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emer...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the imp...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a h...
JOAN OF ARC

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
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The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good.

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