Origen Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• 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

  Origen

  Grace, Soul, Baptism

• 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 sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit

  Origen

  Giving, Water, Baptism

• Where there is division, there is sin.

  Origen

  Division, Sin

• 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

  Justice, Next, Sin

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.84, Jazzybee Verlag

• 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.

  Origen

  Mean, Passion, Wrath

  Source: www.patheos.com

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