Cyprian Quotes

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He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.

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

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

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Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household...They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.

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

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Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for one who prays only for himself. For we do not say, "My Father, who art in heaven"... Our prayer is public and common; and when we pray, we pray not for one, but for the whole people, because we the whole people are one.

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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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No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.

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

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Our brethren who have been freed from the world by the summons of the Lord should not be mourned, since we know that they are not lost but sent before.

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

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The frame wearied with labors lies prostrate on the ground, but it is no penalty to lie down with Christ. Your limbs unbathed, are foul and disfigured with filth and dirt; but within they are spiritually cleansed, although without the flesh is defiled.

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There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church.

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And according as we say, "Our Father," because He is The Father of those who understand and believe; so also we call it "our Bread," because Christ is The Bread of those who are in union with His Body. And we ask that this Bread should be given to us daily, that we who are in Christ, and daily receive The Eucharist for the Food of Salvation, may not by the interposition of some heinous sin...be separated from Christ's Body.

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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.

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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.

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

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