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
“No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.” — Anonymous 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
“The Ancient Church Fathers, including disciples of the twelve apostles, were firmly premillennial, pretribulational, and very pro-Israel.” — Ken Johnson Copy Share Image
I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is… — Basil Bunting 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
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
“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
'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
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
“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
“This is the homely heart of Incarnation, this meeting of God in man with men and women, this simple face of divine… — Eugene Kennedy 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 early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles continued in their own time, even if not… — Craig Keener Copy Share Image
The so-called Church Fathers are not some theologians as we know them nowadays. They were close to the teaching of the Apostles… — Notker Wolf Copy Share Image
“Calvin unceasingly studied the church fathers and the medieval doctors, and this was reflected in his writings. He saw himself engaged in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith… — Saint Augustine 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
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of… — Gail Buckley 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
“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and,… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“vision. The dynamic psychology described in this book largely focuses on the interface of psychology with what Rudolf Otto called the numinous.… — John G. Shobris Copy Share Image
“This was borne out again in October 1996 when Pope John Paul II, standing in the context of a train of Catholic… — Mark Shea 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
“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
“Paradise is not a garden of bliss and changeless perfection where the lions lie down like lambs (what would they eat?) and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible… — William Lane Craig 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
“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
“Charles Kahn offers the following summary of how a new metaphysics takes shape in Islamic philosophy: 'My general view of the historical… — James Conant 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
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
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any… — Saint Augustine 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
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
“Remaining" is an essential part… What the Church Fathers call perseverantia–patient steadfastness in communion with the Lord amid all the vicissitudes of… — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger 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
“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
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — Saint Augustine 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 of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit” quote by Origen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/origen-12126_apostles_the-church-received-from-the-apostles-th_199967.jpg)
![“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like…” quote by C.J. Sansom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0e/c-j-sansom-22985_apocalypse_many-tudor-era-religious-radicals-believ_2017683.jpg)
![“This was borne out again in October 1996 when Pope John Paul II, standing in the context of a train of Catholic thought which stretched back to the Church Fathers said, in essence, "Looks like there's some good evidence for some sort of biological evolution."[22] That is, he said, as so many…” quote by Mark Shea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a3/mark-shea-86645_biological-evolution_this-was-borne-out-again-in-october-1996_2906849.jpg)
![“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or…” quote by Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e3/saint-augustine-328_augustine_though-he-avoided-outright-endorsement-o_2467712.jpg)