Origen Quotes

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

God is best known in not knowing him.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?

God is a verb, not a noun.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

I definitely believe in God.

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.