Justin Martyr

... it is better to believe even what is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like…

— Justin Martyr

Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and…

— Justin Martyr

When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven,…

— Justin Martyr

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

— Justin Martyr

And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.

— Justin Martyr

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

— Justin Martyr

“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He,…

— Justin Martyr

If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of…

— Justin Martyr

“Plain singing is not childish, but only the singing with lifeless organs, with dancing, and cymbals, &c. Whence the use of such…

— Justin Martyr

We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded…

— Justin Martyr

We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of…

— Justin Martyr

God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused…

— Justin Martyr

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.

— Justin Martyr

But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead,…

— Justin Martyr

Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with…

— Justin Martyr

And this food is called among us the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes…

— Justin Martyr

Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart.

— Justin Martyr

But if so great a power is shown to have followed and to be still following the dispensation of His suffering, how…

— Justin Martyr

We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands,…

— Justin Martyr

Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized…

— Justin Martyr

Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah…

— Justin Martyr

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

— Justin Martyr

We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts…

— Justin Martyr

We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with…

— Justin Martyr

For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have…

— Justin Martyr