Athanasius on the Incarnation, the image of God, and knowing God.

...being good, [God] gives them a share in His own Image, our Lord Jesus Christ, and makes them after His own Image and after His likeness: so that by such grace perceiving the Image, that is, the Word of the Father, they may be able thr.ough Him to get an idea of the Father, and knowing their Maker, live the happy and truly blessed life