Pelagius: Doing

Pelagius was British monk. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“We must now take precautions to prevent you from being embarrassed by something in which the ignorant majority is at fault for lack of proper consideration, and so from supposing with them, that man has not been created truly good simply because he is able to do evil. … If you reconsider this matter carefully and force your mind to apply a more acute understanding to it, it will be revealed to you that man's status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior: it is on this choice between two ways, on this freedom to choose either alternative, that the glory of the rational mind is based, it is in this that the whole honor of our nature consists, it is from this that its dignity is derived.”

Letter to Demetrias

“Do you consider a man to be a Christian by whose bread no hungry man is ever filled?”

On The Christian Life

“The best incentive for the mind consists in teaching it that it is possible to do anything which one really wants to do.”

Letter to Demetrias

“If you depart from evil but fail to do good, you transgress the law, which is fulfilled not simply by abominating evil deeds but also by performing good works’”

On Virginity 6.1

[Harrison, Carol, Truth in a Heresy?, The Expository Times, 2016, 112, 3, 78–82, 10.1177/001452460011200302]
On Virginity