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Marius Victorinus Quotes on God

Gaius Marius Victorinus was a Roman rhetorician, grammarian, Neoplatonist philosopher, and Latin Christian theologian whose late conversion in Rome around 355 became a pattern that helped inspire Augustine's own. This page collects quotes attributed to Marius Victorinus on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Marius Victorinus:

    “The Word is the act of being itself.”

  • Attributed to Marius Victorinus:

    “God is being, and being is the source of all that is.”

  • Attributed to Marius Victorinus:

    “Trinity is unity in motion, distinction without division.”

  • Attributed to Marius Victorinus:

    “True conversion is the soul's return to its source.”

  • Attributed to Marius Victorinus:

    “The path of philosophy ends in worship.”