Bishop Athanasius Quotes & Sayings

Rejection is good for the soul. — Eva Mendes

You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal. — Augustus

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace. — Al Franken

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. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

The idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written. — Marcel Proust

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality. — Wendy Kaminer

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us. — Bill Bryson

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief. — Simon Mawer

Success is more difficult to handle than failure. — Ravi Zacharias

History is entirely created by the person who tells the story. — Lin-Manuel Miranda