Origen Quotes

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• Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.
• The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God…
• When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.
• This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to…
• Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given…
• The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine…
• You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even…
• We have become sons of peace for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.
• Conscience is the chamber of justice.
• It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it is beyond a doubt bodies…
• Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the…
• What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?
• The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives
• God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.
• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood…
• What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.
• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them,…
• But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to…
• Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved…
• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm,…

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