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.
Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ. - Cyprian
Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.
- 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
May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.
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 a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.
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
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…
No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God. - Cyprian
No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.
If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray! - Cyprian
If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!
Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself. - Cyprian
Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.
Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul.… - Cyprian
Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul.…
This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind. - Cyprian
This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.
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