Origen on healing those unworthy of the mysteries

"It is not, therefore, to mysteries and to share in wisdom 'hidden in a mystery which God foreordained before the ages to the glory' of his saints that we call the dishonest man, the thief, burglar, poisoner, sacrilegious fellow, grave-robber, and any others whom Celsus might name for rhetorical effect, but it is for healing." (Con. Cel. III,61)

Origen on the different preparations for receiving the mysteries

"At the beginning when we call men to be cured we encourage sinners to come and hear words which teach them not to sin, and the unwise to hear words which will implant in them understanding, and children to advance to a manly character, and those, who are in a word wretches, to happiness, or, to use a more appropriate word, to blessedness. But when some of those who have been thus encouraged make progress and show that they have been purified by the Logos, and do all in their power to live better lives, then we call them to our mysteries. 'For we speak wisdom among the perfect.'" (Con. Cel. III,59)