"There is one God and one Christ, and……" — Cyprian
"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 possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering."
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Cyprian
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27 Quotes by Cyprian
Cyprian has 27 quotes on this site.
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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 Altar Quotes
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
— Aeschylus
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
— John Ruskin
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so…
— Kurt Cobain
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for…
— Winston Churchill
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