Quotes from Origen
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.
— Origen
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.
— Origen
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— Origen
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
— 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
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.
— Origen
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.
— Origen
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
— Origen
That which is called God's wrath, and anger, is a means of discipline.
— Origen
One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.
— Origen
Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.
— Origen
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 being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
— Origen