Quotes by Cyprian

Cyprian

As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In our council it seemed to us far otherwise. No one agreed to the course which you thought should be taken. Rather, we all judge that the mercy and grace of God ought to be denied to no man born

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Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

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

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

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

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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.

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If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another

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

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Quotes by Cyprian

Cyprian

Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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