Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but… — Cyprian Copy Share
"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come?… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In… — Cyprian Copy Share
Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
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