Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.

For no part of Creation is left void of him: he has filled all things everywhere.

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 deeds.

Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is.

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 phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i.e., Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.