Occupation: Saint Birth: 296 Death: May 2, 373
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 j….
You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself..
In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as though they peri….
He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is..
Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer..
Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
For no part of Creation is left void of him: he has filled all things everywhere..
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 neighb….
The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth..
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, through….
You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading..
For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything..
Christ was made man that we might be made God..
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 ….
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phras….
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 th….
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 d….
Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker..
God became man so that man might become a god..
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit..