Origen Quotes

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• You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.

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  Stars, Moon, World

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• What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?

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  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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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.

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  Believe, Scripture, Difficulty

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• The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.

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  Heart, Embrace, Humans

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

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  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Where there is division, there is sin.

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  Division, Sin

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• What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.

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  Honor, And Love, Admire

  "Selections from the Commentaries and Homilies of Origen".

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• Conscience is the chamber of justice.

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  Justice, Ethics, Fairness

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, p. 46, 1899.

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• 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.

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  Lying, Soldier, Battle

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• 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 is by many
  degrees far better than what we
  perceive Him to be.

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  Believe, Reflection, Perception

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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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  Prayer, Voice, Needs

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• Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

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  Freedom, Evil, Good And Evil

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• The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us.

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  Lamps, Guides, Word Of God

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• When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

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  Prayer, Angel, Watches

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• 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.

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  Karma, Soul, Honor

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• 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

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  Giving, Water, Baptism

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• As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.

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  Eye, Light, Mind

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

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  Soul, Victory, World

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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.

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  Soul, Arms, Our Actions

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• 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?

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  Morning, Stars, Men

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Son, Leader

  "The Writings of Origen".

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Father, Thinking

  Origen, Rowan A. Greer (1979). “Origen”, p.86, Paulist Press

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• That which is called God's wrath, and anger, is a means of discipline.

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  Mean, Wrath, Discipline

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Those who are wise ambassadors of the word have no other object in view than to free as far as they can their hearers from weak opinions, and to endue them with intelligence.

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  Wise, Views, Ambassadors

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• If someone considers the prophetic writings with all the diligence and reverence they are worth, while he reads and examines with great care, it is certain that in that very act he will be struck in his mind and senses by some more divine breath and will recognize that the books he reads have not been produced in a human way, but are words of God.

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  Book, Writing, Mind

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