Quotes from Origen
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, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
- Origen
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.
- Origen
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.
- Origen
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.
- Origen
That which is called God's wrath, and anger, is a means of discipline.
- Origen
God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.
- Origen
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 to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
- Origen
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
- Origen
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.
- Origen
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
When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.
- Origen
One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.
- Origen