Origen Quotes

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• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the…
• When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an…
• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him…
• Ask, and it shall be given you.
• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His…
• We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and…
• You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.
• The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.
• The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us.
• If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became…
• It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our…
• The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to…
• Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.
• The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists of an upright…
• The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
• Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
• Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal,…
• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He…
• But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not…
• We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words…

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