Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion. Cyprian More Quotes by Cyprian More Quotes From Cyprian Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you. Cyprian scripture reading prayer May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom. Cyprian catholic christian white Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's. Cyprian baptism men thinking No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God. Cyprian mercy-of-god grace-and-mercy strong This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind. Cyprian holy christian bread 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. Cyprian church lord christ 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. Cyprian soul heaven thinking 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. Cyprian size grace faith 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 crime murder authority If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray! Cyprian sin praying prayer Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ. Cyprian maintaining christ thinking Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself. Cyprian men Custom is often only the antiquity of error. Cyprian antiquity customs errors 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. Cyprian prayer teacher art For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved. Cyprian tempest warfare soldier By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man. Cyprian light heart men 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. Cyprian taken grace doe The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins. Cyprian mad numbers world When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer. Cyprian praying spirit prayer 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. Cyprian catholic giving men
