Polycarp Quotes

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• If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one…
• Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.
• Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you…
• by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in…
• Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach…
• But why do you delay? Come, do what you will.
• Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?
• Hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian,
• Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved…
• I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved.
• If you imagine for a moment that I would do that, then I think you pretend that you don't know who I am. Hear it…
• Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, that you may both receive praise for your good works,…

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