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  • We speak, indeed, of the wrath of God. We do not, however, assert that it indicates any passion on His part, but that it is something which is assumed in order to discipline by stern means those sinners who have committed many and grievous sins.

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  • Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.

  • God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.

    Feet   Enemy   Christ  
  • Every soul... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor, is determined by its' previous merits or demerits. Its' work in this world determines its' place in the world which is to follow this.

  • For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.

    Jesus  
    "The Writings of Origen".
  • Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given for the remission of sins, and, according to the usage of the Church, baptism is given even to infants. If there were nothing in infants which required the remission of sins and nothing in them pertinent to forgiveness, the grace of baptism would seem superfluous

  • 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 in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

    Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.84, Jazzybee Verlag
  • 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 enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.

    Origen, Rowan A. Greer (1979). “Origen”, p.86, Paulist Press
  • 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 that they bore prudence on their lips.

  • Ask, and it shall be given you.

    Origen , Aeterna Press (2016). “Origen Collection [2 Books]”, p.40, Aeterna Press
  • What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman?

    Men  
  • 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, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

  • 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 proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

    Men  
  • 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 act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.

    Jesus   Men  
  • 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 are only of secondary importance and arise from time to time to meet the varying conditions of reasonable creatures. Those who require bodies are clothed with them, and contrariwise, when fallen souls have lifted themselves up to better things their bodies are once more annihilated. They are ever vanishing and ever reappearing.

  • 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 teaching of the Church, transmitted in orderly succession from the apostles, and remaining in the Churches to the present day, is still preserved, that alone is to be accepted as truth which differs in no respect from ecclesiastical and apostolica tradition.

    Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.54, Jazzybee Verlag
  • 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 course of life. This is plainly taught us by the passage, "You that boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonor God."...For if he who transgresses the law dishonors God by his transgression,...it is evident that he who keeps the law honors God. So the worshipper of God is he whose life is regulated by the principles and teachings of the Divine Word

  • 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 be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

    Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.56, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Where there is division, there is sin.

  • 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 of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

  • 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

  • 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 exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

    Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag
  • 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, allow false convictions to creep in.

    Lying   Soldier   Battle  
  • Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.

    Christian   Jesus   Men  
  • 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 angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

    Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.56, Jazzybee Verlag
  • What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?

  • Conscience is the chamber of justice.

    "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, p. 46, 1899.
  • He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.

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  • 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 soul.

  • 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 will yet hear us.

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