(Updated July 14, 2025)
This Quote Archive collects pertinent quotes from the Church Father, St. Athenagoras.
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This Quote Archive is being continuously updated as research continues.
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St. Athenagoras of Athens, A Plea for the Christians (c. 177)
What man of sound mind, therefore, will affirm, while such is our character, that we are murderers?…How, then, when we do not even look on, lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death? And when we say that those women who use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder, and will have to give an account to God for the abortion, on what principle should we commit murder? For it does not belong to the same person to regard the very fetus in the womb as a created being, and therefore an object of God’s care, and when it has passed into life, to kill it; and not to expose an infant, because those who expose them are chargeable with child-murder, and on the other hand, when it has been reared to destroy it. But we are in all things always alike and the same, submitting ourselves to reason, and not ruling over it.
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