Quotes from Origen

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

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.

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

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.

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

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.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

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.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

He makes Himself known to those who, after doing all that their powers will allow, confess that they need help from Him.

In souls, there is no illness caused by evilness [??? ??????] that is impossible to cure [???????? ????????????] for God the Logos, who is superior to all." (CC 8.72)

Christ reigns in order to save." (Hom. in Luc. 30)

I do not deny in the least that the rational nature will always keep its free will, but I declare that the power and effectiveness of Christ's cross and of his death, which he took upon himself toward the end of the aeons, are so great as to be enough to set right and save, not only the present and the future aeon, but also all the past ones, and not only this order of us humans, but also the heavenly orders and powers." (Comm. in Rom. 4.10)

Reason, therefore, demonstrates that external events do not depend on us, but that it is our own business to use them in this way or the opposite, having received reason as a judge and an investigator of the manner in which we ought to meet those events that come from without. 6.