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Quote by Paul the Apostle

“We were by nature children of wrath, even as others.”

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Paul the Apostle is a significant figure in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, considered one of the founding figures of Christianity. He is believed to have been a follower of Jesus Christ and a key figure in spreading the Christian faith. Paul's life was marked by his transformation from a Pharisee who actively persecuted Christians to a devoted follower of Jesus. He dedicated himself to spreading Christianity throughout the Greek and Roman worlds, and his writings, including numerous letters in the New Testament, have had a profound impact on the development of Christian doctrine. more

“The Scripture, which tells us not to be angry at all, and which says in the thirty-seventh Psalm, Cease from anger, and forsake wrath, and which commands us by the mouth of Paul to put off all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication, would not involve God in the same passion from which it would have us to be altogether free.”

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Author:Origen

“Those who are wise ambassadors of the word have no other object in view than to free as far as they can their hearers from weak opinions, and to endue them with intelligence.”

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Author:Origen

“Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that wherein He has erred. But as when a man repents of anything, he wishes to change what he has done; thus where you hear that God repents, look for an actual change. God does it differently from you, although He calls it by the name of repentance; for thou dost it, because you had erred; while He does it, because He avenges, or frees.”

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Author:Saint Augustine