"Custom is often only the antiquity of error." — Cyprian
"Custom is often only the antiquity of error."
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27 Quotes by Cyprian
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This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.
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As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within…
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If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe,…
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In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we…
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And according as we say, "Our Father," because He is The Father of those who understand and believe; so also…
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Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.
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None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are…
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But later, by the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years was washed away, and…
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The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation,…
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Baptism pertains to the Church alone.
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Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved,…
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"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall…
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More Antiquity Quotes
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one of 126 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the…
— Unknown Author
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of…
— John Ruskin
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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough…
— Janet Morris
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History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still,…
— Unknown Author
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting…
— William Buckland
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of…
— Confucius
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