Cyprian

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

— Cyprian

Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to…

— Cyprian

It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and…

— Cyprian

"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who…

— Cyprian

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

— Cyprian

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

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Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

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The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it…

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As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second…

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Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

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Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

— Cyprian

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they…

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This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.

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No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.

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He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength…

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Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man,…

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None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and…

— Cyprian

If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission…

— Cyprian

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

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And according as we say, "Our Father," because He is The Father of those who understand and believe; so also we call…

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Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If…

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May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of…

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In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out…

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By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from…

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Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

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