Irenaeus of Lyons Quotes

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• The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.

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  Alive, Glory, Humans

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• Jesus Christ, in His infinite love, has become what we are, in order that He may make us entirely what He is.

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  Jesus, Order, May

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• 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 believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.

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  Believe, Reality, Order

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• Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

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  Tree, Debt, Debtors

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• The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

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  Christian, Preparing For Death, Preparing

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• No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

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  Wisdom, Knowledge, Men

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• Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is.

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  Jesus, Might, Boundless

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• As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.

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  Mean, Long, Doe

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• He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God.

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  Son, Men, Might

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• The glory of God is the human person fully alive.

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  Alive, Glory, Humans

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• Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.

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  Men, Knowledge Of God, Impossible

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• The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

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  Knowledge Of God, Steps, Creation

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• For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace.

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  Christian, Grace, Church

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• 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 apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?

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  Writing, Church, Important

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• When we stand in the light it is not we who illumine the light and cause it to shine but we are illuminated and made shining by the light... God grants his blessings on those who serve him because they are serving him and on those who follow him because they are following him, but he receives no blessing from them because he is perfect and without need

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  Blessing, Light, Perfect

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• One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

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  Church, World, Paradise

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• 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 proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith

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  Scripture, Pillars, Salvation

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• 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 attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.

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  Errors, Dresses, Naked

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• The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

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  Catholic, Church, Prophet

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• God became man, that we might be gods.

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  Men, Might

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• [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 his being baptized, but as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as new-born babes, even as the Lord has declared: "Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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  Mean, Men, Baptized In

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• But following the only true and stedfast Teacher, the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did, through His transcendent love, become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself.

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  Teacher, Jesus, Love Is

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• For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and absolutely, called God, or named Lord. But that He is Himself in His own right, beyond all men who ever lived, God, and Lord, and King Eternal, and the Incarnate Word, proclaimed by all the prophets, the apostles, and by the Spirit Himself, may be seen by all who have attained to even a small portion of the truth. Now the Scriptures would not have testified these things of Him, if, like others, He had been a mere man.

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  Jesus, Kings, Son

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• 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 other hand, he bound the strong one and freed the weak and bestowed salvation on his handiwork by abolishing sin. For he is our compassionate and merciful Lord who loves mankind ... Had not man conquered man's adversary, the enemy would not have been conquered justly. Again, had it not been God who bestowed salvation we would not possess it securely.

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  Jesus, Strong, Father

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