Patristic Quote for the Day

When the Logos of God became man, He filled human nature once more with the spiritual knowledge that it had lost; and steeling it against changefulness, He deified it, not in its essential nature but in its quality. He stamped it completely with His own Spirit, as if adding wine to water so as to give the water the quality of the wine. For He becomes truly man so that by grace He may make us gods. - St. Maximos the Great, Second Century on Various Texts, #26