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 (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

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 (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

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

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

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

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

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 (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

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

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

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

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

Persevere in labors that lead to salvation. Always be busy in spiritual actions. In this way, no matter how often the enemy of our souls approaches, no matter how many times he may try to come near us, he’ll find our hearts closed and armed against him.

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

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 (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

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

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)