"When reading the scriptures you come across a passage which is a stumbling stone, put the blame on yourself. So that there may come about what was written: 'He who believes will not be put to shame' {Romans 9:33}. First believe, then you will find."

(Homily on Jeremiah) 

"Indeed, since the Logos is more powerful than any evil that can exist in the soul, it applies the necessary therapy to every individual, according to God's will. And the ultimate end of all things will be the elimination of evil."

(Origen-Contra Celsum)

“For the punishment of sin is remedial, not destructive; it aims at healing the will, that the soul may turn freely to the good, and that what has fallen may rise again to its proper state.”  (On First Principles)

"Just as the believer who has committed some other sin must, despite his faith, face judgment, so too the nonbeliever who has done a good work will, despite his lack of faith, not be deprived of his reward." (Commentary on Romans)

"How do you know that Sodom and Gomorrah might not have already paid in this life their debt of suffering?  Listen to the testimony of scripture.  Do you want to hear what the Old Testament says? 'Sodom shall return to its former estate' (Ezek. 16:55); and you still have doubts whether the Lord is good in punishing the Sodomites?" (Homily on Ezekiel)

 "Jesus, by his coming, brings about both: judging the world and saving it, but the one by means of the other.  For he came into the world to judge it in order to save it (for he does not save it in order to judge it), and like a doctor comes to the sick in order to heal them."(Commentary on the Gospel of John) 

"Because the WORD and its healing power is stronger than all the evils in the soul, he applies this power to each one according to God's will; and the end of all things is the elimination of evil." 

(Contra Celsum)

"But in this purification which is obtained through the punishment of fire, how much time and how many ages of punishment may be required of sinners, only he can know to whom 'the Father has given all judgment (Jn 5:22), who so loves his creation that for it 'he emptied himself' of the 'form of God, taking the form of a servant, humbling himself unto death' (cf. Phil 2:6-8), desiring 'all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth' (2 Tim 2:4)." (Commentary on Romans)

"God the Father of all things, in order to ensure the salvation of all his creatures through the ineffable plan of his Word and wisdom, so arranged each of these, that every spirit, whether soul or rational existence, however called, should not be compelled by force, against the liberty of his own will, to any other course than that to which the motives of his own mind led him."

(De principiis 2.1.2,)

"But our belief is that the Word shall prevail over the entire rational creation and change every soul into his own perfection; in which will choose what he desires and obtain what he chooses. For although, in the diseases and wounds of the body, there are some which no medical skill can cure, yet we hold that in the mind there is no evil so strong that it may not be overcome by the Supreme Word and God. For stronger than all the evils in the soul is the Word, and the healing power that dwells in him; and this healing he applies, according to the will of God, to every man. The consummation of all things is the destruction of evil."

(Contra Celsum 8.72)

"When someone turns to the Lord, this veil is removed; for where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom' (2 Cor. 3:16-17).  Therefore we must beseech the Lord himself, the Holy Spirit himself, to take away all the fog and darkness which, heaped up by the filth of sin, darkens the vision of our heart, so that we might be able to gaze on the marvelous spiritual meaning of his law, just like the Psalmist who said, 'Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of your law' (Ps. 119.18)." 

(Homily on Leviticus)

"In souls there is no illness caused by evil that is impossible to cure for God the Logos."

" God has one Goal: When the whole fullness of our nature has been perfected in each man, some straightway even in this life purified from evil. Others healed hereafter through fire for the appropriate length of time and others ignorance of the experience equally of good and evil in the life here. God intends to set before everyone the participation of the good things in him. Which the scripture says eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor thought attained. 

(One The Soul and the Resurrections Chapter 10 : Doctrine of the Resurrection)

“God’s providence does not abandon the soul to corruption, but restores the will, drawing it back from evil into harmony with Himself, so that all things may return to the Good. (The Great Catechism)

"When I was dark with sin and at home in the dark because of my deeds. He by His love made me beautiful, enhancing His own beauty for my ugliness. "

"For it is evident that God will in truth be all in all when there shall be no evil in existence. When every created being is at harmony with itself, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord: When every creature shall have been made one body." 

" Every one of us is the painter of his own life. Our soul is like the canvas, and the virtues are the paint. Jesus Christ is the image we should copy." 

" God's promise is so great that it passes the furthest limits of happiness."

"No being will remain outside the number of the saved."

" At some time, evil will recede into non-being and be completely eradicated and that God's perfect goodness will enfold in itself every rational being, and nothing God has made will be cast out of His kingdom. This will come to be when all the evil mixed in with what exists has been consumed, like dross. By the purifying fire, and everything God has made will be as it was at the beginning. Before evil entered the world." 

(Treatise on 1 Cor 15:28)

"When there has been a restoration of those now in sin to their original state, a harmony of thanksgiving will arise from all creation."

"For it is evident that God will in truth be all in all when there shall be no evil in existence, when every created being is at harmony with itself, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord: when every creature shall have been made one body."

"Punishment is, in its operation, like medicine; it dissolves the hard heart, purges away the filth of uncleanness, and reduces the swellings of pride and haughtiness; thus restoring its subject to a sound and healthful state."

"All men are Christ's, some by knowing Him, the rest not yet. He is the Savior, not of some and the rest not. For how He is Savior and Lord, if not the Savior and Lord of all?"

"The sum of your sins does not surpass the magnitude of God's mercies. Your wounds are not beyond the healing skill of the Great Physician." 

"For just as someone who has become enclosed in a dark house does not see his own body, so also the soul, due to disobedience, having become enclosed by sin in this age does not recognize its own beauty."  

"And so let us be glad and bear with patience everything the world throws at us, secure in the knowledge that it is then that we are most in the mind of God."

"It is not the way of the compassionate maker to create rational beings in order to deliver them over mercilessly to unending affliction in punishment for things of which He knew even before they were fashioned...All the more since the foreplaning of evil and the taking of vengeance are characteristic of the passions of created beings, and do not belong to the creator. For all this characterizes people who do not know or who are unaware of what they are doing. "

"Do not fall into despair because of stumbling. I do not mean that you should not feel contrition for them, but that you should not think them incurable."

"Though God knew mankind would fall and reject His love, He created us anyway. "To say that the love of God diminishes or vanishes" because of a created being's fall means 'to reduce the glorious Nature of the Creator to weakness and change."

 "God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love and even more than we are able to love ourselves. " (St. John Chrysostom)

"Christ will come at the end of the times in order to annul everything evil, and to reconcile again all beings, that there may be an end of all impurities.

 (St. Irenaeus of Lyons)

"There are very man in our day, who though not denying scriptures, do not believe in endless torments." (St. Augustine) 

"Since evil does not exist by its nature outside of free choice, when all choice is in God, evil will suffer a complete annihilation because no receptacle remains for it."

(St. Macrina the younger)

"Satan has admitted to me that I am the object of his hatred. He said that "a thousand souls do me less harm than you do when you speak of the great Mercy of the Almighty One. The greatest sinners regain confidence and return to God., and I lose everything. But what is more, you persecute me personally with that unfathomable mercy of the Almighty one."  (St. Faustine Diary 1167)