Cyprian Quotes

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.

No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.

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 grace.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

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 place in him.

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.

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 turned into ashes and holiness departs.

Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

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 Church?

The beard must not be plucked. Ye shall not deface the figure of your beard.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.

Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up

Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

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 outside the Church nothing is lawful.

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.