“[On the Human Soul] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives… — Hippolytus of Rome Copy Share Image
“The Ancient Church Fathers, including disciples of the twelve apostles, were firmly premillennial, pretribulational, and very pro-Israel.” — Ken Johnson Copy Share Image
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets… — Origen Copy Share Image
“what the Scriptures teach unsettled by their encounter with the book of Providence. This is often the case when it comes to… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“But the work which most richly embroidered the gospel narratives and was destined to exert a tremendous influence on later Mariology was… — J.N.D. Kelly Copy Share Image
“The Theology of The Holy Trinity has been well established for 1700 years. In my opinion, it is hyper-evident by the New… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“An error in the doctrine of God will have inevitable consequences in the sphere of action, of moral behaviour, of the polity… — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
“By the early fifth century, the Church that had begun as a tiny group of fishermen and other poor people meeting in… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“I’m now reading Tertullian, Cyprian, and others of the church fathers with great interest. In some ways they are more relevant to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent… — Neil R. Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
“The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did… — Frank Butcher Copy Share Image
“Among the famous sayings of the Church fathers none is better know than Augustine’s ‘Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“From the story he told me, I pictured him among those bands of vagrants that in the years that followed I saw… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image