It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it is beyond a doubt bodies are only of secondary importance and arise from time to time to meet the varying conditions of reasonable creatures. Those who require bodies are clothed with them, and contrariwise, when fallen souls have lifted themselves up to better things their bodies are once more annihilated. They are ever vanishing and ever reappearing.
OrigenWhen anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.
OrigenThe physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
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