"One who is truly humble does not humble himself shamefully and unworthily, groveling on his knees, throwing himself prone on the ground, wearing the clothing of those who are destitute, and covering himself with dust."—Origen #SoulBecomingNous
"Unless I learn by You, I cannot learn by any man. For whom other than God behoves teaching about God? Therefore, revelation comes from on high, following willingness accompanied by merit."
—Origenis speaking to Logos
"AFTER TWENTY MINUTES, CONVERSATION WITH PEOPLE USUALLY TURNS INTO CHATTER AND CRITICISM."
—ELDER ST SOPHRONY OF ESSEX #SoulBecomingNous#CompletionofReason shh!
We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—
everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. —st Paul #Anaxagorean
He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so expansive, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding./st Paul
Origen’s preface [to On First Principles] provides a key to his intentions. He begins by arguing that those who believe and are persuaded that Christ is God’s Logos and Truth must seek the truth through Christ’s teachings. —J. Trigg #MindfromWithout (θύραθεν νοῦς)
...Since Christ is the Logos, these constitute the entire Bible, not just Christ’s words recorded in the Gospels.
Origen then says: because many who profess to believe in Christ disagree, not just in small and trivial matters, but also in ones of great and the greatest importance, that is about God, or about our Lord Jesus Christ himself, or about the Holy Spirit, and not just about these,>
Dont be sad at your entry into the silence of the grave, O mortal most fair, who are subject to corruption in the ignominy of death: look how God has placed a limit for your silent & humiliated existence, and for your deprived state, not remembered by anyone.
—St Isaac the Syrian
How beautiful is the way you are made, but how grievous is your dissolution! Let not sorrow batter you because of this, for you are going to put on [a] body…burning with fire and with spirit, bearing the precise image of its Maker.
—St Abba Isaac the Syrian
Do not be grieved that for many years we will be subject to this corruption of death, beneath the soil, until the end of this kosmos overtakes us.
—St Abba Isaac the Syrian