All Cyprian Quotes
- This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind. Bread
- 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… Agreed
- 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… According
- 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… Brought
- 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,"… According
- Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse. Commit
- 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… Avenges
- But later, by the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years was washed away, and a light from above -… Baptism
- 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… Ashes
- Baptism pertains to the Church alone. 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… Anyone
- "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… Any
- 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… Baptismal
- 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… Baptism
- 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… Abandoned
- 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… Altar
- The beard must not be plucked. 'You will not deface the figure of your beard'. 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… Believer
- May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom. All
- Custom is often only the antiquity of error. Antiquity
- Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you. Committed
- Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for one who prays… All
- Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen… Baptism
- The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires. Blaze
- 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… Any