Cyprian Quotes

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• This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.
• 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…
• If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins…
• In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing…
• And according as we say, "Our Father," because He is The Father of those who understand and believe; so also we call it "our Bread,"…
• Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.
• None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful...it is not…
• But later, by the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years was washed away, and a light from above -…
• The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is…
• Baptism pertains to the Church alone.
• Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In the Ark of…
• "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? To…
• Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the…
• Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is…
• Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the life and grace…
• There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not…
• The beard must not be plucked. 'You will not deface the figure of your beard'.
• He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to…
• May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.
• Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

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