Quotes from Irenaeus of Lyons
The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
Jesus Christ, in His infinite love, has become what we are, in order that He may make us entirely what He is.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
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.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
God became man, that we might be gods.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.
- Irenaeus of Lyons