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.

- Cyprian

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

- Cyprian

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

- Cyprian

Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul.…

- Cyprian

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

- Cyprian

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

- Cyprian

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

- 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 o…

- Cyprian

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

- Cyprian