Occupation: Saint Birth: 130 Death: 202
Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an….
Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God..
Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the a….
And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics] has been instigated by satan to a den….
He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old men. Therefore….
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to….
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon….
He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise the names, the expressi….
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those m….
He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God..
[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and dead, into whom he did also command them ….
But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustom….
Jesus Christ, in His infinite love, has become what we are, in order that He may make us entirely what He is..
He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled their disobedience. On….
The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God..
We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time p….
The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God..
God became man, that we might be gods..
Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is..
For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace..
Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled..