Pelagius: Man

Pelagius was British monk. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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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.”

Pelagius

Letter to Demetrias

Way , Understanding , Nature , Freedom

“Let no man judge himself to be a Christian, unless he is one who both follows the teaching of Christ and imitates his example.”

Pelagius

On The Christian Life

Christ