Love Quote by Origen

Origen pictures holiness as a deliberate refusal of comfort. Jesus is "in His house" only in the narrow sense: a protected interior where the worthy can present themselves, where devotion happens on schedule. The moment the multitudes appear, that spatial logic breaks. The crowd is, by definition, outside - uncredentialed, inconvenient, noisy, not easily shepherded into the clean geometry of a household. Origen’s rhetorical move is to make that inconvenience the point: love is measured by motion, by leaving.

The intent isn’t to romanticize the masses; it’s to rebuke religious gatekeeping. In a church still defining its boundaries in the second and third centuries, Origen is arguing against a faith that waits to be approached. The subtext is pastoral and slightly polemical: if your God only meets people after they’ve found the door, your God is more landlord than savior. "Those who are not able to come to Him" includes more than the physically distant. It’s the poor, the ritually compromised, the morally exhausted - anyone for whom spiritual seeking is a luxury good.

The house language also hints at ecclesial anxiety: the church as home, yes, but also as a place that can become self-satisfied. Origen quietly shifts authority away from the inner circle. Christ’s presence is not monopolized by the sanctified interior; it spills outward, choosing the crowd. That outward drift becomes a template for discipleship: not purity protected, but compassion risked.