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

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

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

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

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

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

Cyprian quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

Cyprian quotes: The beard must not be plucked. 'You will not deface the figure of your beard'.

The beard must not be plucked. 'You will not deface the figure of your beard'.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cyprian quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Cyprian quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

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

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

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

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

Cyprian quotes: Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

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

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

Cyprian quotes: When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.

When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.

Cyprian quotes: The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

Cyprian quotes: Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

Cyprian quotes: Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.