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Quotes About Theosis

The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.
~ Clement of Alexandria
This marvelous anthology of books and letters called the Bible is all for the sake of astonishment! It's for divine transformation (theosis), not intellectual or "small-self" coziness.
~ Richard Rohr
The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
~ Athanasius
That's why this matter of inner peace is so important, because it lays a groundwork for that new life, that theosis, that transformation, that link with God, the ultimate destiny of our Spirits - not in the afterlife, but right here and now.
~ Theodore J. Nottingham
The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
~ Athanasius
God became man so that man might become a god.
~ Athanasius of Alexandria
God became man, that we might be gods.
~ Irenaeus of Lyons
GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.
~ Clement of Alexandria
Christ was made man that we might be made God.
~ Athanasius of Alexandria
To be deified is to enable God to be born in oneself. Dionysius the Areopagite Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, II, Intro. (PG 3,392)
~ Olivier Clement